Quotes About Courage

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.

To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one.

Creators are hard-driving, focused, dominant, independent risk-takers.

Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?

The man who plays alone never loses.' " Guiliano

Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. The Baglioni are true believers, he said. They believe in paradise. Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this moral life? Unfortunately, such a belief also gives evil men the courage to commit great crimes in the name of good and God.

Always remember that and live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish.

He had asked Hagen one final question. Does this man have real balls? Hagen translated the question properly in his mind. Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?

Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward.

escribir lo que no se había vivido, lo que sólo se había querido vivir, era también una manera —cobarde y tímida— de vivirlo...

Nostalgia is cowardice

I know what a man feels close to the woman he loves, but he's affraid to do anything

Quería de veras un consejo, piensa, sabía que estabas enamorado de ella y quería saber si te atreverías a decírselo? Qué habría dicho si yo, piensa, qué habría yo si ella. Piensa: ay, Zavalita.

Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives. Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Smith hace una curiosa diferencia entre el comerciante audaz al que su profesión incita a ser arriesgado y el hacendado tímido, que duda mucho antes de invertir. Por eso, el comerciante es el verdadero pionero del progreso.

El heroísmo, la audacia, la prodigalidad, la libertad son, aparentemente, prerrogativas masculinas; sin embargo, Emma descubre que los varones que la rodean —Charles, Léon, Rodolphe— se vuelven blandos, cobardes, mediocres y esclavos apenas ella asume una actitud «masculina» (la única que le permite romper la esclavitud a que están condenadas las de su sexo en la realidad ficticia).

What if after all these years you discover that behind your determined, disciplined mind, impervious to discouragement, behind the fortress admired and envied by others, you have a tender, timid, wounded, sentimental heart?

Todo el cuerpo del Jaguar pareció replegarse como sorprendido por una instantánea punzada en las entrañas. - Pero el caso de él era distinto - dijo, ronco, articulando con esfuerzo-. No es lo mismo, mi teniente. Los otros me traicionaron de pura cobardía. Él quería vengar al Esclavo. Es un soplón y eso siempre da pena en un hombre, pero era por vengar a un amigo, ¿No ve la diferencia, mi teniente?

Un tiro es un segundo. Eso es preferible a irse muriendo de a poquitos, de hambre, de frío, de soledad, de tristeza.

Y partió al alba, solo, como parten los héroes».

Hicieron, entonces, lo único que podían hacer, con heroísmo, sí, pero sin violentar los mil y un tabúes y preceptos que regulaban su existencia: dejarse matar.

How does it feel to say no to the one man to whom you have always said yes? How does it feel when you stand up to him and reject all he has never questioned?