Quotes About Courage

You cannot teach a man how to forget fear. It is a rare quality

If there's one thing I've learned in all my years watching men shed blood in the arena, it's this. Being a gladiator isn't just about physical strength. It's about thinking on your feet. You, young man … you show admirable resourcefulness when your back is against the wall

Die Armee ist ein zu gefährlicher Ort für Theaterkritiker. - Macro

You'd have to be a mad dog or a Celt to venture out into the noonday gales in this dump, I tell you.

There exists no purer concentration of Americanism than among the First Americans." The Navajos were so eager to fight that some of them lied about their age, or gorged themselves on bunches of bananas and swallowed great quantities of water in order to reach the minimum weight requirement of 120 pounds.

Po první svÄ›tové válce se Spojenci nebáli nikoho.

Nosotros, como todas las razas, tenemos nuestros santos y nuestros pecadores, nuestros cobardes y nuestros héroes.

For him we were as good as dead; each of us was carrying around his own death certificate, from which only the date was missing.

it was a brave man who ate the first oyster

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

Je crois que je comprends bien comment ca peut te faire. Nous avons essayée de batir notre amour par-delà les instants, mais seuls les instants sont surs. Pour le reste on a besoin de foi; et la foi, est-ce courage ou paresse?

J'accepte la grande aventure d'être moi

I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

at the end of the last century, the police discovered two little girls of twelve or thirteen in a bordello; a trial was held where they testified; they spoke of their clients, who were important gentlemen; one of them opened her mouth to give a name. The judge abruptly stopped her: Do not sully the name of an honest man!

Peut-être vas-tu me trouver ridicule, mais je me mépriserais de n'oser l'être jamais.

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

C'est en risquant sa vie que l'homme s'élève au-dessus de l'animal.

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice does not pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer.

Je sens en moi quelque chose de trouble qui me fait peur, une violence qui m'épuise. Mais j'accepte la grande aventure d'être moi.

By her eyes she clung to the world, as by her nails she clung to the sheet, so that she might not be engulfed. 'Live! Live!

La puerta se abrirá lentamente y veré lo que hay detrás de la puerta. Es el porvenir. La puerta del porvenir va a abrirse. Lentamente. Implacablemente. Estoy sobre el umbral. No hay más que esta puerta y lo que acecha detrás. Tengo miedo. Y no puedo llamar a nadie en mi auxilio. Tengo miedo.

Gün doÄŸarken ancak dört saatlik bir ömrü kalm??t?. Dirilttim onu! Kendisine Ne için? diye sormak cesaretini bulamad?m.

Oh, it was easy to be a soldier, it was much less easy to become a man again.