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Quotes About Courage

Yo sé que el dolor es la nobleza única
~ Charles Baudelaire
Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie, N'ont pas encore brodé de leurs plaisants dessins Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins, C'est que notre âme, hélas ! n'est pas assez hardie.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables: le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
~ Charles Bukowski
the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
~ Charles Bukowski
It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
~ Charles Bukowski
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
~ Charles Bukowski
they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things
~ Charles Bukowski
if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.
~ Charles Bukowski
when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns
~ Charles Bukowski
I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
~ Charles Bukowski
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
~ Charles Bukowski
Run with the hunted.
~ Charles Bukowski
We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
~ Charles Bukowski
The wisdom to quit is all we have left.
~ Charles Bukowski
True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
~ Charles Bukowski
They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.
~ Charles Bukowski
what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.
~ Charles Bukowski
we must bring our own light to the darkness.
~ Charles Bukowski
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
~ Charles Bukowski
as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.
~ Charles Bukowski
I run with the hunted.
~ Charles Bukowski
Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
~ Charles Bukowski