Quotes About Courage

To accept a little-death is worse than death itself

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the

I give you Muad'Dib's words! He said, 'I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?' That's what Muad'Dib told you!

Abandonem a certeza! Esse é o comando mais profundo que a vida nos dá. É o que constitui a vida, no final das contas.

The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin

Die Angst tötet das Bewusstsein. Sie führt zu völliger Zerstörung. Ich werde ihr ins Gesicht sehen. Sie soll mich vollständig durchdringen. Und wenn sie von mir gegangen ist, wird nichts zurückbleiben. Nichts außer mir.

If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.

On se bat quand il le faut, et pas lorsqu'on en a le cœur!

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there staring out at you!

Frica ucide mintea. Frica este moartea m?runt?, purt?toarea desfiin??rii totale.

In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand moved then as it does today, when we may be wiser because we are able to look back upon our former condition, and for that very reason have got to admit the courage of our earlier striving in which we persisted even in sheer ignorance.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. A sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation

On the Left side of the blackboard I print a capital F on the right side another capital F. I draw an arrow from left to right, from FEAR to FREEDOM. I don't think anyone achieves complete freedom, but what I am trying to do with you is drive fear into a corner

Inertia is, perhaps, the single most powerful stumbling block to writing. It takes energy, courage, patience, and commitment to keep writing in your journal. It's no small thing to open doors, let down barriers, enter sealed rooms, and walk obscure avenues of memory that haven't been traveled in years—or perhaps ever been traveled.

Tis' your life, make your own decisions and to hell with the begrudgers, Frankie.

Remember us, Should any free soul come across this place, In all the countless centuries yet to be, May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, Go tell the Spartans, passerby: That here by Spartan law, we lie.

Hydarnes: When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun! Leonidas: Good; then we will fight in the shade.

Frank Miller

I have shown him that a man without hope is a man without fear.

Y aunque sus trescientos valientes morirán... sólo siente que tenga tan pocos hombres que sacrificar.

Return with the shield or on it

Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves

Glory?! Have you gone MAD? There's no glory to be had now! Only retreat -- or surrender -- or death! That's an easy chose for us, arcadian! SPARTANS NEVER RETREAT! SPARTANS NEVER SURRENDER!