Quotes About Courage

People who are afraid to sacrifice somebody have no business talking about a common purpose.

The status was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it. All that Dagny wanted of life was contained in the desire to hold her head as he did.

When everybody agrees," Taggart's voice suddenly went shrill, "when people are unanimous, how does one man dare to dissent? By what right? That's what I want to know—by what right?

HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him.

He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW, THE THING TO DO IS NOT TO GET SCARED, BUT TO LEARN

She was twelve years old when she told Eddie Willers that she would run the railroad when they grew up. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought -- and never worried about it again.

centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Good God, Dagny! Do you expect me to be afraid of an object like James?

No podía permitir que funcionara frenado por la advertencia: Cuidado. Mas despacio. Cautela. No trabajes a pleno rendimiento si no te lo exigen.

No son mis pecados lo que usan para perjudicarme, sino mis virtudes;

If a man dies fighting for his own freedom, it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing.

Si un hombre muere peleando por su propia libertad, eso no es un sacrificio: no está dispuesto a vivir como esclavo; pero sí es un sacrificio para el tipo de hombre que está dispuesto a ser esclavo.

Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. But where does one find it?

I don't usually let things happen to me. I made a mistake this time. I shouldn't have waited for you to throw me out. I should have left long ago.

A través de toda la oscuridad, a través de toda la vergüenza de que son capaces los hombres, el espíritu del hombre permanecerá vivo en esta tierra.

Notice the malice toward an independent man. Look back at your own life. Howard, and at the people you've met. They know. They're afraid. You're a reproach.

His vision, his strength, his courage came from his own spirit. A man's spirit, however, is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

That future that they're all talking and trembling about—it will be as you made it, because you had the courage none of them could conceive of. All the roads to wealth that they're scrambling for now, it's your strength that broke them open. The strength to stand against everyone. The strength to recognize no will but your own.

So long a road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!

What is morality?" she asked. "Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. But where does one find it?

It was a satisfying bravery; it never aroused antagonism.

Pero te encontrarás con gente que intentará herirte através de lo bueno que haya en ti, sabiendo que es bueno, necesitándolo y aborreciéndote por ello. No te dejes atropellar cuando descubras semejante actitud en los otros.

Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.