Quotes About Courage

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

El soldado de hierro vale tanto como el duque de hierro.

The first symptom of true love in man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness.

Il paraît que les paroles des hommes forts doivent toujours recevoir de l'approche de la mort une certaine grandeur.

Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.

Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus : après la philosophie, il faut l'action.

To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live

pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre on our heads." These

Les galères ! Ah ! oui, plutôt mille fois la mort, plutôt l'échafaud que le bagne, plutôt le néant que l'enfer ; plutôt livrer mon cou au couteau de Guillotin qu'au carcan de la chiourme ! Les galères, juste ciel !

This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea...

La vie, le malheur, l'isolement, l'abandon, la pauvreté, sont des champs de bataille qui ont leurs héros ; héros obscurs plus grands parfois que les héros illustres.

You always have everything better than the rest, even pain.

La lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle tremble.

Toutes les conquêtes sublimes sont plus ou moins des prix de hardiesse. Pour que la révolution soit, il ne suffit pas que Montesquieu la pressente, que Diderot la prêche, que Beaumarchais l'annonce, que Condorcet la calcule, qu'Arouet la prépare, que Rousseau la prémédite ; il faut que Danton l'ose.

When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs.

La fuerza más fuerte de todas es un corazón inocente.

Let us die facing out foes, make them bleed while we can.

Dying is nothing; what's terrible is not to live.

Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We hesitated, he came! we fell back, he advanced! Behold what those who tremble with old age teach those who tremble with fear!

Era um desses homens que dominam o espanto produzido pelos lances desesperados. Não obstante o ingente perigo da crise, não obstante o medonho aspecto da catástrofe, os gestos daquele homem em nada semelhavam a agonia do afogado que debaixo da água abre desmesuradamente os olhos num esgar convulso e horroroso.

Open, nevertheless.

AÅŸk?n orta yolu yoktur; ya mahveder ya kurtar?r. AÅŸk, ölüm deÄŸilse hayatt?r.

He very often said: "There is a bravery for the priest as well as a bravery for the colonel of dragoons." "Only," added he, "ours should be quiet.