Quotes About Courage

He led and directed conversations. He did not resort to subterfuge, certainly of this nature. And yet, even if he had, not one of the Catholic Daughters, nuns, or Theresians, would have challenged him. This elderly Ojibwe woman did so with a perfect ease.

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.

As I feel into a darker sleep, I understood that I had learned something. Now that I knew fear, I also knew that it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.

Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai

The door is open. Go!

To one born in the phenomenon of strength, weakness is an alien lie.

Look, I can't go out with you, because...because...because I'm a lesbian.

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

When you write, you should put your skin on the table.

The coldest most rational scientific madness is also the most intolerable. But when a man has acquired a certain ability to subsist, even rather scantily, in a certain niche with the help of a few grimaces, he must either keep at it or resign himself to dying the death of a guinea pig. Habits are acquired more quickly than courage, especially the habit of filling one's stomach.

Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again.

Chin up, Ferdinand, I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

Our molecules, the dears, want to get lost in the universe as fast as they can! It makes them miserable to be nothing but "us," the jerks of infinity. We'd burst if we had the courage, day after day we come very close to it. The atomic torture we love so is locked up inside us with our pride.

Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds là, autant qu'ils sont et qui doit être au bout de la nuit, et c'est pour ça qu'ils n'y vont pas, au bout de la nuit.

Lo mejor que puedes hacer, verdad, cuando estás en este mundo, es salir de él. Loco o no, con miedo o sin él.

The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.

Lola: Il n'y a que les fous et les lâches qui refusent la guerre quand leur Patrie est en danger. - Ferdinand: Alors vivent les fous et les lâches.

Toute possibilité de lâcheté devient une magnifique espérance à qui s'y connaît. C'est mon avis. Il ne faut jamais se montrer difficile sur le moyen de se sauver de l'étripade, ni perdre son temps non plus à rechercher les raisons d'une persécution dont on est l'objet. Y échapper suffit au sage

Najbolje je što se može u?initi kad je ?ovek na ovom svetu, zar ne, to je da iz njega iza?e? Bio lud ili ne, plašljiv ili ne.

Être brave avec son corps ? Demandez alors à l'asticot aussi d'être brave, il est rose et pâle et mou, tout comme nous.

Los hombres se aferran a sus cochinos recuerdos, a todas sus desgracias, y no hay quien los saque de ahí. Con eso ocupan el alma. Se vengan de la injusticia de su presente trabajándose en lo más hondo de su interior con mierda. Justos y cobardes son, en lo más hondo. Es su naturaleza.

Maybe they thought they could make me go and commit suicide if they yelled loud enough. But either you have it in you or you don't.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.