Quotes About Courage

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come only when one is able to forgive even those who have committed barbaric acts. If Angulimala is capable of renouncing violence, then tell me, your Majesty: is your civilized society also capable of being truly civilized and renouncing violence?

You discover that it takes far more courage to transform the impulse toward justified violence into the embrace of a supposed adversary.

One thing should be clear to you now. Money-making is aggression. That's the whole thing. The functionalistic explanation is the only one. People come to the market to kill. They say, 'I'm going to make a killing.' It's not accidental. Only they haven't got the genuine courage to kill, and they erect a symbol of it. The money. They make a killing by fantasy.

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

For Christ's sake don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves.

It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think — to say it in your own words, without compromise.

Everyone got bitterness in his chosen thing. It might be in the end that the chosen thing that the chosen thing in itself is bitterness because to arrive at the chosen thing needs courage, because it's intense, and intensity is what the feeble humanity of us can't take for long. And also the chosen thing can't be one that we already have, since what we already have there isn't much use or respect for.

Oh yes, I got up on my hindlegs like an orator and sounded off to everyone.

To - to uto?ište mogao je imati, vjerovao je, da samo kaže jednu rije?. Zašto onda ne kaže tu rije?? Zato što bi današnje uto?ište moglo biti sutrašnja tamnica.

I'm going to shake this off. I'm not going to be a victim. I hate the victim bit

Umotajmo se sada svi u mrtva?ke pokrove i krenimo na Washington i Moskvu. Polegnimo, muškarci, žene i djeco, i uzviknimo: - Neka se život nastavi - možda ga ne zaslužujemo, ali neka se nastavi!

At sixteen John escaped from the Warsaw ghetto, leaving behind his parents and his sister. They were killed. Everyone was killed. John somehow obtained Polish seaman's papers, and for several years he worked in the engine rooms of German freighters. When the war ended he came to Israel via Cyprus

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

over the years I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it.

Put yourself in potentially embarrassing situations on a regular basis just to maintain practice. If you get embarrassed as planned, watch how one year later you are still alive.

A lack of fear of embarrassment is what allows one to be proactive. It's what makes a person take on challenges that others write off as too risky. It's what makes you take the first step before you know what the second step is. I'm not a fan of physical risks, but if you can't handle the risk of embarrassment, rejection, and failure, you need to learn how, and studies suggest that is indeed a learnable skill.1 As

The Confederate Army's fight against overwhelming odds, is one of the most glorious moments in Anglo-Saxon history." —Sir Winston Churchill

an ill-equipped relatable character who faces impossible odds yet doesn't give up.

and so he could show me how much my life was controlled by fear.

This promise of resurrection is our hope. It is that on which we stake our life. It is what enables us, as Christians, to face death with courage and joy.

Locke sighed. 'So this is winning,' he said. 'It is,' replied Jean. 'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke.

Is cowardice a habit? And if it is, am I brave enough to break it?

Can't wait to sit down for a while. This pretending to be brave and strong is getting old.