Quotes About Courage

Few of her achievements have been recognised, and when they are, the credit is invariably given to the men serving her. This is largely due to a basic handicap: that she was a woman and could only rule in the name of her sons ... In terms of groundbreaking achievements, political sincerity and personal courage, Empress Dowager Cixi set a standard that has barely been matched.

Apesar de sua vida ter sido de sofrimento e angústia, suas histórias nunca foram insuportáveis nem deprimentes. Tinham alicerces numa força moral que era o tempo todo alentadora.

I had experienced privilege as well as denunciation, courage as well as fear, seen kindness and loyalty as well as depths of human ugliness. Amid suffering, ruin and death, I had above all known love and the indestructible human capacity to survive and to pursue happiness.

JH, meu cavalheiro sem armadura, pois sua força interior sob o mais brando dos exteriores basta para conquistar.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

I don't think you can worry about what is going to happen with something after that. I think the only thing that you can do is be honest and let the chips fall where they may.

Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

Rather than run aimlessly away, it would be best, I suppose, to face the situation squarely and get used to it once and for all.

I stuck a cigarette through the slit in the bandage and asked myself with a nervous fidget what I had lost along with my face.

AÅŸa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant.

Aber sie halten es für eine Legende!' 'Weil sie es dafür halten wollen. Vielleicht würden sich manche Märchen und Mythen als wahr herausstellen, wenn nur jemand den Mut aufbrächte, in einem Brunnen nach einer goldenen Kugel zu suchen oder die Dornenhecke vor einem Schloss zu zerschneiden.

it takes someone brave to do what everyone else is afraid to do first.

Hush," I said. "I'm here, and I'm not letting you out of my sight anytime soon so keep holding me tight." I looked down, a little more than afraid of plummeting hundreds of feet down.- Breena to Kian, Silver Frost

Prince Rajadithan[8]

She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible determination.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) Have the courage to use your own understanding, is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

If the ship sinks, we're going down with a cheer and a good drink under our belts anyway.

You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. Throughout our lives, we all find ourselves in situations in which we come face to face with the unknown, and the myth of the hero shows us how we should behave. We all have to face the final rite of passage, which is death.

O c?l?torie în str?fundurile minÅ£ii implic? mari riscuri personale, deoarece s-ar putea s? nu fim în stare s? suport?m ce g?sim acolo

Yet despite my depression and my fear for the future, I could not quite succumb to the prevailing despair. The worst had happened, but that meant that I no longer had anything much to lose, and increasingly I found that quite liberating.

One of the questions that I am almost in aria of asked about backpacking is, Aren't you afraid? Generally, people have something specific in mind when they ask the question, and generally, it's something on the order of snakes, bears, or criminals. I'm not particularly afraid of snakes; in most parts of the United States, bears are more of a nuisance than a threat; and I've never met a criminal in the woods.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.