Quotes About Courage

Advocates of truth.?Truth is least likely to find advocates not when it is dangerous to speak the truth, but when it is boring to do so.

Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water!

Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!

One must be prepared to sacrifice all desirability to truth, every truth, even plain, harsh, ugly, repellent, unchristian, immoral truth.?For such truths do exist

Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one's ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears.

You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you! You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when it is boring.

To love those who despise us, and to give one's hand to the phantom who tries to frighten us?

Brave people are persuaded to an action when it is represented as more dangerous than it is.

You say to me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But wherefore would you have in the morning your pride and in the evening your resignation?

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so sensitive! We are all of us pretty sturdy asses and she-asses.

Das Individuum musste immer darum kämpfen, nicht von der Horde überwältigt zu werden. Wer es versucht, wird sehr oft einsam sein und manchmal voller Furcht. Doch kein Preis ist zu hoch für das Privileg, sich selbst zu gehören.

Courageous, untroubled, mocking, violent—thus does Wisdom want us: she is a woman and always loves only a warrior.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.

Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.

Le courage ne consiste pas à ne point être ému en face d'un danger, mais à surmonter son émotion: c'est pour cela qu'un enfant peut être aussi courageux qu'un homme.

The troops were cracking because they could not absorb what was happening to them, because they knew themselves to be utterly powerless (bravery had little survival value when one was on the receiving end of a bombardment), and because they had no confidence that the generals who had put them in danger knew what they were doing. Men whose courage was beyond challenge could and did break down if subjected to enough strain of this kind.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone's. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

Fiecare e st?pân pe propria-i moarte, iar singurul lucru pe care-l putem face, odat? sosit ceasul,este s?-i ajut?m pe oameni s? moar? f?r? team? È™i dureri.

No tengas vergüenza de llorar. Tampoco de no llorar.)