Quotes About Courage

E' incredibile come certa gente si arrenda subito. Non sono perdenti, sono quelli che non ci provano nemmeno.

Nella vita ci sono cose che ti cerchi e altre che ti vengono a cercare. Non le hai scelte e nemmeno le vorresti, ma arrivano e dopo non sei più uguale. A quel punto le soluzioni sono due: o scappi cercando di lasciarrele alle spalle o ti fermi e le affronti

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

Possiamo sempre fare qualcosa": massima che andrebbe scolpita sullo scranno di ogni magistrato e di ogni poliziotto.

Occorre compiere fino in fondo il proprio dovere, qualunque sia il sacrificio da sopportare, costi quel che costi, perché è in ciò che sta l'essenza della dignità umana.

Soltanto affrontando la mafia per quello che è - un'associazione criminale seria e perfettamente organizzata - saremo in grado di combatterla.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Adev?rata nobleÈ›e a omului, eroismul s?u cel mai mare const? în a È™ti s? tr?iasc? pân? atunci când toate temeiurile vieÈ›ii sunt distruse în el, pân? atunci când v?lurile È™i cârjele care fac posibil? viaÈ›a tuturor au fost aruncate la o parte. Prin aceast? nobleÈ›e, prin aceast? m?reÈ›ie, prin acest ultim È™i disperat curaj, scap în acelaÈ™i timp de moarte È™i de mediocritate.

The Malavoglia huddled together, clinging to the rail, hardly daring to breathe because when the sea roars no-one dares answer.

Un duro non sarà mai un dritto. Il duro, quando se la vede brutta, spara. Il dritto non si mette mai nella condizione di dover sparare.

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

The greatest denial of Truth is the belief that being vulnerable is dangerous.

now at long last one of them is going to have the courage to explain to my generation how any human being with mind and heart and brain could Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not even 'do' what was done – it isn't our function to say whether a man is 'guilty as charged' or not – but even see it being done, and consent to remain alive.

the great Dutch Protestant theologian W. A. Visser 't Hooft suggested, which I suspect applies to many people including–to a large degree–Speer: that "people cannot find a place in their consciousness . . . their imagination . . . or finally have the courage to face (or allow themselves to remember) unimaginable horror. It is possible," he said, "to live in a twilight between knowing and not knowing.

Early in 1943, when the Germans had ordered that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia be deported to Poland, one man – Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, Apostolic Delegate to Turkey, later Pope John xxiii – acted without thought of political expediency or of what the Nazis might do.

As we know from Richard Glazar's story, 24,000 Bulgarians – those who had been in Salonika – did die in Treblinka in the spring of 1943; but there can be little doubt that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia were saved by the intervention of the future Pope and the courage of a king.

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

Nada há de mais sábio do que apostar na loucura dos homens.

A única arma de que um pobre dispõe para conservar a sua dignidade é instilar o medo.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, follow me.

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

Dac? va fi s? mor, f?-m? s? nu m? tem de moarte, dar f? ca moartea mea s? aib? însemn?tate, o, Dumnezeule.

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly