Quotes About Courage

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Certainty, clarity, confidence, and courage. These are your linchpin states for achieving wealth and success. If you don't learn how to trigger them, then you're playing Russian roulette with your future—essentially hoping that you'll be in the right state when you enter a sales encounter, versus knowing you will be because you have a surefire strategy to do it. The name of that strategy is olfactory anchoring.

who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

I was elected to lead—not to watch the polls.

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them — at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.

The light that you discover in your life is proportionate to the amount of the darkness you are willing to forthrightly confront (from the debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek)

If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.

He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American" that we had "exercised our right to peaceful free expression." But if we did it again, he didn't "know what action the state board of education might take against individual students." Translation: You've had your fun. Now sit down, shut up, and take the freakin' test. Or else.

Others...are so sure the world is full of nothing but bullies that they become bullies themselves, trying to hit everyone in the world first. But a life of getting in the first shot isn't a life. Not really, anyway.

I don't feel brave. I feel like a galloping idiot, stumbling from crisis to crisis, barely able to speak to any normal person

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Ése es el sentido de la vida, de la partida. No rendirse. No rendirse jamás.

el miedo es algo malo y perverso que limita la libertad. Quien tiene miedo no vive

Cógeme de la mano. Vamos, cógeme de la mano. Así... Gracias. Ahora ya no me importan el silencio ni la oscuridad.

El que se avergüenza de los sentimientos está perdido. No va a encontrarse nunca.

Je?li odlecisz za daleko, mo?esz po?ama? skrzyd?a.

Sé fuerte, sé fuerte, pero después cede y rómpete.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

Mas dentro do seu peito vem uma marca de amor à liberdade. Marca que o faria abandonar o velho pintor que lhe ensina coisas acadêmicas para ir pintar por sua conta quadros que,antes de admirar, espantam todo o pais. (p.237)

Finalmente ia transpor o duro tempo, a negra noite, o deserto de luto e solidão: outra vez em cavalgada partiria a vadiar.

Vão alegres. Levam navalhas e punhais nas calças. Mas só os sacarão se os outros puxarem. Porque os meninos abandonados também têm uma lei e uma moral, um sentido de dignidade humana.

In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.

No eran valientes porque si triunfaban se transformarían en el germen del ejército emancipador de América, ni porque estaban dispuestos a darlo todo por la patria nueva. Eran valientes, en ese debut sangriento, porque temían más a su jefe que a Dios, y porque al no poder retroceder hasta el más cobarde es un hombre audaz.