Quotes About Courage

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie.

A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice.

But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.

WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it.

The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

I couldn't tell him that I felt too weak and beat up to climb a mountain: sometimes, all the guts you have is the guts you pretend, because you love someone too much to lose their respect.

Sometimes the lion must roar to remind the horse of his fear.

We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Gregory David Roberts

Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

L'unico momento in cui smetteva di odiarsi era quando il rischio era talmente grande da costringerlo ad agire senza pensare e senza provare nessuna emozione.

Sometimes, the bravest thing we ever do is the thing we never get to do. And sometimes the spark that ignites a brother's love, in men not born brothers, is nothing more than a pure intention.

and in minutes we were in blackness again, with nothing but faith and fear and the will to survive.

I could never respect a man who didn't have the good sense to be at least a little bit afraid of me.

I've been in love with you for a while, and I finally had to say it. It doesn't mean you have to do anything about it -- or me either, for that matter.

The path was so narrow, and the drop so steep, that I was sure I would fall if I released my grip.

Things will turn out right, the voice of her heart said to her. Everything will be all right.

There were many, so many men and women, beginning with my own mother, whose courage and sacrifice inspired the memory of them.

Some time on the next day we would be free, or we would be dead.