Quotes About Courage

The question is: what would you like to be, a dog or a wolf?

Wouldn't that be stifling?

the courage to put forth their ideas

He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus.

Pavese spiegava che veniva là non per coraggio, perché lui di coraggio non ne aveva; e nemmeno per spirito di sacrificio. Veniva perché se no non avrebbe saputo come passar le serate; e non tollerava di passar le serate in solitudine.

Yo tampoco te quiero, es imposible quererte. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque no tienes valor para ir hasta el fondo de las cosas. No eres más que un tapón de corcho, eso es lo que eres. Nadie te quiere porque tú no quieres a nadie.

But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.

Quella sera, la sua faccia e i suoi pochi capelli erano come frustati da un colpo di vento. Aveva occhi spaventati, risoluti e allegri; gli vidi, due o tre volte nella vita, quegli occhi. Erano gli occhi che aveva quando aiutava una persona a scappare, quando c'era un pericolo e qualcuno da portare in salvo.

She discovered the wings she never knew she had.

And Winnie, laughing at him, lost the last of her alarm. They were friends, her friends. She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Closing

She was able to believe in this because she needed to; and, believing, was her own true, promising friend once more.

He knows you?" said Mae, her frown deepening. "But you didn't call out to him, child. Why not?" "I was too scared to do anything ," said Winnie honestly. Tuck shook his head. "I never thought we'd come to the place where we'd be scaring children," he said.

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life.

anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.

Sometimes that's all you can do. Hope.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed, they never dare to try. But I tell you, If music be the food of love, play on.

all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self-assured and say, "It's easy for her to be self-assertive, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways we build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness calls on our courage.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider, not to look away but to look more attentively.