Quotes About Courage

Si el miedo no existiera, carecería de sentido el valor; el miedo es la sombra oscura contra cuyo trasfondo aparece más multicolor y atrayente el riesgo.

el miedo es la sombra oscura contra cuyo trasfondo aparece más multicolor y atrayente el riesgo.

Die Härte der Welt wird nur durch Härte gemeistert, nicht aber durch Taschenspielerei.

La fuerza y ??la salud habitan en los intrépidos. Por el contrario, el miedo asedia incluso a aquellos que se arman hasta los dientes, y a estos más que a otros

Hoy, como siempre, los que no temen a la muerte son infinitamente superiores a los más grandes exponentes de los poderes temporales

Lo que no perdono en mi época no es lo de ser cobarde, sino tener que construir cada día la coartada de la propia cobardía difamando a los héroes

Ariosto's: 'A great heart feels no dread of approaching death, whenever it may come, so long as it be honourable.

I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and I swore before this head that for all the future I would cast my lot with the solitary and free rather than the triumphant and servile.

Gracias a Dios, lo más que nos puede ocurrir es que nos maten a tiros».

No es en las horas más ruidosas cuando el Horror recorre el campo de batalla.

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.

En este libro no habrán de ser objeto de embellecimiento los defectos y las culpas, los fallos y las insuficiencias, propios o ajenos. Para ser honesto, hay que saber. Para ser valiente, hay que comprender. Para ser justo no es lícito olvidar. Cuando la barbarie aplasta bajo su yugo hay que luchar, no puedo uno permitirse el permanecer callado. Quien calle en un época como esta traiciona su misión humana.

Nichts belastet den politisch Handelnden schuldvoller als Verschweigen, er muß die Wahrheit sagen, sei sie noch so drückend, nur die Wahrheit steigert die Kraft, den Willen, die Vernunft.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

Esistono libri che fanno provare un amore più intenso di quello conosciuto, un coraggio più scatenato di quello sperimentato. Dev'essere l'effetto che fa l'arte: supera l'esperienza personale, fa raggiungere al corpo, ai nervi, al sangue, traguardi sconosciuti.

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

If, to win, we have to set up the gallows in the public square, I would prefer to lose.

Take a step or two forward lads.....it will be easier that way. His last words to the firing squad, lined up before him holding rifles, at his execution.

Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.

We can become so afraid of death that we never live, so afraid of failure that we never risk, so afraid of pain that we never discover how strong we really are.

Average is always a safe choice, and it is the most dangerous choice you can make.

If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.