Quotes About Courage

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause.

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.

As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone.

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life.

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found -- and it is found in terrible places.

Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.

The brightest light has cast the deepest shadows. To torture and enslave, not because it brings profit to the victor, but because it brings pain to the vanquished, has, through long ages, been deemed a fitting sequel to victories born of the most heroic courage and the noblest self-sacrifice; while no small part of moral progress has consisted in expelling this perverted altruism from the accepted ideals of civilized mankind.

Jim grieved for these American pilots, who died in a tangle of their harnesses, within sight of a Japanese corporal with a Mauser and a single English boy hidden on the balcony of this ruined building. Yet their end reminded Jim of his own, about which he had thought in a clandestine way ever since his arrival at Lunghua.

Energy, even like the biblical grain of mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Feeble folk are as easily reassured as they are frightened.

To beat a retreat with the honors of war has always been the triumph of the ablest generals.

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with the many scary things that were going to start happening from now on. I wanted to try.

I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

Con ng??i không khu?t ph?c dÆ°á»›i hoàn c?nh hay nh?ng th? lá»±c t? bên ngoài, mà s? thua cuá»™c b?t ??u t? chính bên trong

I wanted to strip and dance naked in front of them, because maybe then I could have demolished the fake, slimy atmosphere they had created.

I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and my weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with all the many scary things that were going to start happening to us from now on. I wanted to try.

Non potevo andare avanti così, dovevo reagire per orgoglio, non potevo seguire alla lettera tutto quello che mi dicevano gli altri o farmi trasportare dal fiume senza nemmeno provare a nuotare controcorrente.