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Quotes About Courage

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.
~ Florence Nightingale
fear must be erased from the consciousness.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
La vida es un continuo optar. Algunas veces acertamos, otras veces nos equivocamos. Yo creo que sea cual sea la decisión, errada o acertada, debe salir del corazón, del propio convencimiento y no como consecuencia del miedo
~ Florencia Bonelli
Eliah —Decímelo todo, por favor, Matilde. Quiero ayudarte. Matilde: "¿Sí? ¿Me ayudarías? ¿O saldrías espantado?" —No sabés cuánto me ayudás abrazándome de este modo. Me hacés sentir fuerte cuando me abrazás. Me hacés sentir que soy capaz de conquistar el mundo. Eliah —Mi amor, nadie me había dicho algo tan hermoso, jamás. Si lo que necesitás es mi fuerza, te la doy toda.
~ Florencia Bonelli
A world with England presenting the spectacles of moral cowardice will be a world on a lower plane…. If
~ Ford Madox Ford
For all good soldiers are sentimentalists - all good soldiers of that type. Their profession, for one thing, is full of big words, courage, loyalty, honour, constancy.
~ Ford Madox Ford
It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.
~ Forrest Carter
Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.
~ Forrest Carter
He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.
~ Forrest Carter
Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.
~ Forrest Carter
I don't like it, papa, she said. But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Soldiers don't complain," she would say between her small, shut teeth, "I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I shall pretend that," she said; "and it will be a great comfort." Ermengarde was at once enraptured and awed. "And will you tell me all about it?" she said. "May I creep up here at night, whenever it is safe, and hear the things you have made up in the day? It will seem as if we were more 'best friends' than ever." "Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Coisas muito mais surpreendentes podem acontecer para qualquer um que, quando um pensamento desagradável ou desencorajador vem à mente, apenas tenha a sabedoria de lembrar a tempo e expulsá-lo substituindo-o por um corajoso com determinação. Duas coisas não podem ocupar o mesmo espaço.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
When new beautiful thoughts begin to push out the old hideous ones, life begins to come back... Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place: 'Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
She just flew at him like a little cat last night, and stamped her feet and ordered him to stop screaming, and somehow she startled him so that he actually did stop, and this afternoon—well just come up and see, sir. It's past crediting.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow. While the secret garden was coming
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
And a man who is six feet three in height has six feet and three inches of evil to do battle with, if he has not six feet three of strength and honesty to fight for him.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, or just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose … a thistle cannot grow.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett