Quotes About Courage

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

I hung up and fed myself a slug of Old Forester to brace my nerves for the interview.

The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel, but I didn't move. Not being bullet proof is an idea I had had to get used to.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He must be the best man in his world, and a good enough man for any world. from Raymond Chandler's, The Simple Act of Murder.

down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He must be the best man in his world, and a good enough man for any world. From The Simple Art of Murder

And most men can stand what they've got to stand, when it steps up and looks them straight in the eye. Like they're doing all over the world right now.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

If a well man prays, that's faith. A sick man prays and he is just scared. Nuts to prayer. This is the world you made and you make it all by yourself and what little outside help you got – well, you made that too. Stop praying, you jerk.

when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, and to plenty of people in any business or no business at all these days, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.

So they didn't scare him. Say they just cut off one of his legs and beat him over the head with it. What would he do then—write to the Better Business Bureau?

I never looked back, although I had a good many uneasy periods looking forward. (in The Man With the Golden Typewriter).

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who

There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn't.

You will have to make decisions far worse. You are going to have to learn to think before you act, but never to regret your decisions, right or wrong. Otherwise, you will slowly begin to not make decisions at all.

Fear is the little death, daughter. It kills in tiny pieces.

what matters isn't whether or not you're frightened, but how you behave.

there was no answer he knew, until he actually faced death.

A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.

how many can boast they saved the Prince of Krondor by goosing a demon?

You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never be your father, but nature didn't intend for you to be either of those men, no matter how worthy they were. You must become the best man you are capable of.

Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly.

With bullies it's always the same: whether or not you can best them doesn't matter. What is important is whether or not you'll stand up to them.