Quotes About Courage

I like this book and I especially like the title. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else.

Don't take any guff from these swine.

Fear? I know not fear. There are only moments of confusion.

come away scratched or baffled. —A. J. Liebling

It occurred to me one evening, as I sat by myself in Al's patio, that a man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. I'd been doing it for ten years and I had a feeling that my reserve was running low.

Balls," I said. "Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

McGovern is the only major candidate—including Lindsay and Muskie—who invariably gives a straight answer when people raise these questions. He lines out the painful truth, and his reward has been just about the same as that of any other politician who insists on telling the truth: He is mocked, vilified, ignored, and abandoned as a hopeless loser by even his good old buddies like Harold Hughes. On

So if I decide to leap for The Fountain when I finish this memo, I want to make one thing perfectly clear—I would genuinely love to make that leap, and if I don't I will always consider it a mistake and a failed opportunity, one of the very few serious mistakes of my First Life that is now ending.

The Edge Ã¢â'¬Â¦ There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others—the living—are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

They don't expect to win anything, but on the other hand, they have nothing to lose.

We were past the point of debating the wisdom of this move; it was already done, and our only hope was to get to the other side.

Unless I weaken—and I might—I think I'll be sure I can fly before I return to the nest. It should be interesting Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if nothing else.

We need the courage as well as the inclination to consult, and profit from, the "wisdom traditions of mankind." —E.F. Schumacher In

To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss.

I don't think you really belong here, Aviger. Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly. Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. I don't think any of us do. The brave belong where they decide. Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice.

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience.

A death wish is not the same as a willingness to die.

So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

You never get real adventures without a bit of risk somewhere.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure.

Well, if he had to die anyway, he might as well try it the hard way.

He quit while he was still alive.