Quotes About Courage

Það bíður manns ekki - svona erfitt líf aftur? - heldurðu það?

Vagrancy is deliverance, and a life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle, and get out.

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Audaces fortuna juvat [« La fortune sourit aux audacieux »].

Además, para triunfar siempre en la vida no hace falta más que mucho tupé.

De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace ! »

Then, as the priest was emerging somewhat uneasily from his lair, he went straight up to him, looked deep into his eyes, and growled into his face: 'If you weren't wearing skirts, what a punch I'd give you right on your ugly snout, wouldn't I just!

Ich musste mich zusammennehmen! Ich wollte einfach keine Furcht mehr empfinden! Aber so fest ich mir's vornahm, immer regte sich ein zweites Ich, und dieses zweite Ich - hatte Furcht. Ich fragte mich, was es eigentlich zu fürchten gäbe. Mein tapferes Ich spottete über das feige Ich. Nie habe ich so wie an diesem Tage den Gegensatz der beiden Wesen verspürt, die in uns wohnen. Das eine will, das andere widerstrebt, und wechselnd haben sie die Oberhand.

A pro? v?bec se chovat urážlivÄ› k nÄ›komu, na kom jsme úplnÄ› závislí? To by nebylo v?bec hrdinství, nýbrž jen nerozvážná smÄ›lost.

Happy indeed are those to whom nature has given a thick skin and the armour of stoicism!

as eager to attack as they were ready to take to flight;

Car la haine de l'Étranger arme toujours quelques Intrépides prêts à mourir pour une Idée.

Pois o ódio ao Estrangeiro sempre arma alguns Intrépidos prontos a morrer por uma Ideia.

cuando se es valiente, esto no ocurre ni ante un ataque, ni ante la muerte inevitable, ni ante todas las formas conocidas de peligro: ocurre en ciertas circunstancias anormales, bajo ciertas influencias misteriosas frente a riesgos vagos. El

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something .

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering