Quotes About Courage

Nicholas Monsarrat's epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of men at sea amid

the most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Ce n'est rien de mourir, C'est affreux de ne pas vivre.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

He who despairs is wrong.

There are things stronger than the strongest man...

Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Reality in strong doses frightens.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

No fear, no regrets.

I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

Let us be like a bird for a moment perched On a frail branch when he sings; Though he feels it bend, yet he sings his song, Knowing that he has wings.

It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. Les Miserables, page 674