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Quotes About Courage

The sailor dies in what makes him live. We will die in the air and in hope. (Marin meurt dans ce qui le fait vivre. Nous mourrons dans l'air et dans l'espoir)
~ Charles de Leusse
The V for victory has a shape of slingshot. (Le V de la victoire a une forme de lance-pierre.)
~ Charles de Leusse
Oliver Twist has asked for more!
~ Charles Dickens
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
~ Charles Dickens
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
~ Charles Dickens
Please, sir, I want some more.
~ Charles Dickens
Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.
~ Charles Dickens
We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!
~ Charles Dickens
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.
~ Charles Dickens
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
~ Charles Dickens
You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay
~ Charles Dickens
Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements.
~ Charles Dickens
It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us. No! Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
~ Charles Dickens
It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!
~ Charles Dickens
For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!
~ Charles Dickens
However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
~ Charles Dickens
Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.
~ Charles Dickens
When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.
~ Charles Dickens
Approach me again, you — you — you Heep of infamy," gasped Mr. Micawber, " and if your head is human, I'll break it.
~ Charles Dickens
In una parola, ero troppo codardo per fare quello che sapevo essere giusto, così come ero stato troppo codardo per evitare di fare quello che sapevo sbagliato. A quel tempo, non avevo avuto nessuna esperienza del mondo e non imitavo nessuno dei suoi molti abitanti che agiscono in questo modo. Genio assolutamente naturale, scoprii questa linea di condotta tutto da solo.
~ Charles Dickens
So he whistles it off, and marches on
~ Charles Dickens
Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "O you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.
~ Charles Dickens
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals...
~ Charles Dickens
Courage, dear miss! Courage! Business! The worst will be over in a moment; it is but passing the room-door, and the worst
~ Charles Dickens