Quotes About Courage

It is never too late to break off a marriage that's distasteful to you. 

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books

I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!

He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

Shall anything bolder be found than united woman?' Mr Spinks murmured.

Aber manche Frauen brauchen nur die Herausforderung, damit sie ihr gewachsen sind.

And, dear miss, you won't harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o' your takings.

Láska je potenciální síla ve skute?né slabosti.

You are taking too much upon yourself! she said, vehemently. Everybody is upon me—everybody. It is unmanly to attack a woman so! I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!

Anche tra gli individui più soggetti agli sbalzi d'umore, l'inclinazione a rincuorarsi appare più forte di quella a deprimersi; e il peso specifico dell'anima invariabilmente si conferma inferiore rispetto a quello del mare di angosce in cui essa è precipitata.

Kdyby byl úsp?šným ?lovÄ›kem, zažil by úlek, avÅ¡ak neÅ¡tÄ›stí je krásným opiátem pro osobní strach.

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.

Before his Becoming, he would not have dared any of this. Now he realized he could do anything. Anything. Anything.

Starling discovered that she had traded feeling frightened for feeling cheap. Of the two, she preferred feeling frightened.

Tú puedes hacer atravesar el infierno a un grupo de hombres y conseguir que te sigan queriendo.

There was a time when Starling would have deferred to these men. Now they didn't like what she was saying, and she had seen too much to care.

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtray, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

Al examinar nuevamente la cara, pensó que había aprendido algo que le serviría toda la vida. Contemplar deliberadamente esa cara, cuya lengua cambiaba de color en el punto en que rozaba el vidrio, no era tan horrendo como soñar con Miggs engulléndose la suya. Pensó que se sentía capaz de mirar cualquier cosa, siempre y cuando tuviese algo positivo que hacer respecto de lo que miraba. Starling era joven.

Mass celebrated on the hood of a jeep with shells bursting all around is as much the Mass as the liturgy celebrated in St John Lateran by the Bishop of Rome himself.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

But critics are a necessary part of our social system in America—they screen out those who lack the courage and resolve to take criticisms and triumph in spite of them.

Courage can be developed. But it cannot be nurtured in an environment that eliminates all risks, all difficulty, all dangers.