Quotes About Courage

More than anything I am afraid of fear itself overwhelming me. One must use any bit of folly to control it.

I know I am incapable of courage unless I have decided to give my life. Without that choice, there is nothing but flight. But you take such a decision on the spur of the moment and you cannot make it last for weeks and months. The mental effort is too great. Hence the rarity of true courage. We generally accept a kind of lame compromise between the destiny and the man, which reason rejects.

I have noticed that the bravest are the ones most lacking in imagination and sensitivity. This is understandable. If life had not already accustomed the men in the front lines to resignation and the passive obedience of the humble, they would run away. And if those defending the front were highly strung intellectuals, the war would soon become impossible.

So, in order to be courageous, I now have a fairly simple means at my disposal: to accept death.

Here everything is planned for killing. The ground is ready to receive us, the bullets are ready to hit us, the spots where the shells will explode are fixed in time and space, just like the paths of our destiny which will inevitably lead us to them. And yet we want to stay alive and we use all our mental strength to silence the voice of reason. We are well aware that death does not immortalise a human being in the memories of the living, it simply cancels him out.

I can see that you have made your decision, but I wonder if you will become tired and discouraged. Me—I will never give up.

Credin?a nu este, nu a fost ?i nu va fi niciodat? o virtute.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Memento Audere Semper

Memento audere semper. Et ventis adversis.

Gabrielle Lord

In vulnerability one practices the art of friendship, the art of the heart. It is an essential spiritual practice.

If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.

Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

I accept your condemnation," I said.

Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time.

I don't think you can really run away from things. They tend to follow you" -Anya

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?