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Quotes About Courage

says the brave and tearful mother hustled over from subconscious central casting when recollection fails.
~ Arthur Phillips
There is no grand scheme of things. That's just a bullshit disguise for cowards. The present has no right to judge the past. Or to act in order to win the future's approval.' (Todd, the marine)
~ Arthur Phillips
BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN
~ Arthur Ransome
Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown.
~ Arthur Ransome
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other insipidities of the same kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
He who has lost all hope has also lost all fear;
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
He who is without hope is also without fear. - On Psychology
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Was die Herde am meisten hasst, ist derjenige, der anders denkt; es ist nicht so sehr die Meinung selbst, sondern die Kühnheit, selbst denken zu wollen.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Courage, however, may also be explained as a readiness to meet ills that threaten at the moment, in order to avoid greater ills that lie in the future; whereas cowardice does the contrary.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In this world, where the game is played with loaded dice, a man must have a temper of iron, with armor proof to the blows of fate, and weapons to make his way against men. Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Gemlemek zorunday?z göÄŸsümüzdeki yüreÄŸimizi. -Homeros, Ilyada
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Nancy Mairs writes that calamities "have a genius of their own.
~ Arthur W. Frank
Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.
~ Arundhati Roy
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
~ Arundhati Roy
From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.
~ Arundhati Roy
Mar gayee bulbul qafas mein Keh gayee sayyaad se Apni sunehri gaand mein Tu thoons le fasl-e-bahaar She died in her cage, the little bird, These words she left for her captor – Please take the spring harvest And shove it up your gilded arse
~ Arundhati Roy
All they have to do is to turn around and shoot. All the people have to do is to lie down and die.
~ Arundhati Roy
He held his mundu spread above his head to dry. The wind lifted it like a sail. He was suddenly happy. Things will get worse he thought to himself. Then better. He was walking swiftly now, towards the Heart of Darkness. As lonely as a wolf. The God of Loss. The God of Small Things. Naked but for his nail varnish. (274)
~ Arundhati Roy
Mohabbat goliyon se bo rahe ho Watan ka chehra khoon se dho rahe ho Gumaan tum ko ke rasta katt raha hai Yaqeen mujhko ke manzil kho rahe ho
~ Arundhati Roy
There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .
~ Arundhati Roy
He folded his fear into a perfect rose... She took it from him, and put it in her hair.
~ Arundhati Roy
you cannot stage their revolution for them. You can only create awareness. Educate them. They must launch their own struggle. They must overcome their fears.
~ Arundhati Roy
Even later, on the thirteen nights that followed this one, instinctively they stuck to the Small Things. The Big Things ever lurked inside. They knew that there was nowhere for them to go. They had nothing. No future. So they stuck to the small things.
~ Arundhati Roy