Quotes About Courage

Within a month, five hundred Jews had chosen to kill themselves rather than face another day of torment, including a family of four who lived next door to the Kleins. "They shot themselves, one at a time," Klein said. "I lay in my bed and listened to the whole thing. A shot, followed by sobs. Another shot, more sobs. After the fourth shot, there was no one left to cry, no one but me.

Shamron had always believed careers were defined less by the successes achieved than the calamities survived. "Any fool can take a victory lap," he once famously remarked during a lecture at the Academy, "but only a truly great officer can maintain his composure and his cover when his heart is breaking.

Akimov had decided to throw caution to the wind and host a blowout

No seas modesto en estos tiempos la valentía es un bien bastante escaso.

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune

fled East Berlin. They had made

a recitation of the Lord's Prayer. "And may you grant us the strength and determination to complete our

Nothing worse doing is without risk. - Saladin

nom de guerre

Nothing worth doing this without risk. – Saladin

Nothing worth doing is without risk. - Saladin

Five Chimneys, by Olga Lengyel

Don't look back. You are never completely alone.

With anything that would make things better, believe as much as you can—then believe a little more.

la caridad, la generosidad, la valentía, son avenidas de dos vías.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.

A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.

You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that?

It was at this moment, chided by his old and present rival, that Shade decided it was time to revert to the shitkicker verities. Brazen dash, rough talk, and an ounce or two of mean were clearly required.

A person has to show some spirit--fate just about never shines kindly on chickenshits.

Don't fight if you can help it. But if one of you gets whipped by somebody both of you best come home bloody, understand?

É vergonhoso confessar isso: mas eu tenho consciência sem ter força. Eu tenho olhos sem ter vontade. Algum dia eu devo pagar por essa minha covardia, mas hoje eu não me vejo brigando, discutindo ou forçando uma mudança. Também não me vejo fingindo aceitar o que está acontecendo.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

You—with all your weaknesses and flaws—were made for this. You—in all of your struggles and pain—are enough.