Quotes About Courage

Pero la naturaleza de los subordinados era usar el poder de manera intrépida, ya que la culpa siempre podía achacarse tanto a los de abajo como a los de arriba.

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

Faith is not to blindly believe, son. Faith is action. It's doing something. It's creating what we need and believing that God will be merciful enough to grant it in his time.

She knew, as few others did, that the power to coerce depended entirely on the fear or weakness of other human beings. It was possible to use coercion, yes, but in the end you found yourself surrounded only by the weak and fearful, with all those of courage and strength arrayed against you. And many of your strong, brave enemies would match you in evil, too. The more you coerced others, the sooner you would bring yourself to the moment of your doom.

Good, that's settled then,' said Danny. 'Since I'm the idiot who set this all in motion by playing around with the rope-climb in a high school gym, I apologize right now for everything that goes wrong with this. With any luck, I'm the only one who gets zapped in the outself, and everything else goes on like normal for the rest of you. But if terrible things happen, please remember that I meant well, and that I did my best. That is what I promise you

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

It made him a better soldier than he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.

we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane. They

said Ender cheerfully.

Ambition leads you to great risk. But ambition never leads you to certain destruction." "Unless you're a fool.

If only such sad people could remember: Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is still sweet. Let it go on.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world." "What the hell, maybe they can.

Insouciant heroes aren't brave or relaxed. They're just trying not to embarrass themselves in the moments before they die. She

Perhaps that was why she was sure she had to go to Vigor Church and on to where Alvin was. Because fear told her to stay, but hope told her to go.

Insouciant heroes aren't Brave or relaxed. They're just trying not to embarrass themselves in the moments before they die.

The snake began to unweave itself from the rug again, only this time Ender did not hesitate. He stepped on the head of the snake and crushed it under his foot. It writhed and twisted under him, and in response he twisted and ground it deeper into the stone floor. Finally it was still. Ender picked it up and shook it, until it unwove itself and the pattern in the rug was gone. Then, still dragging the snake behind him, he began to look for a way out.

As Napoleon said, the only thing a commander ever truly controls is his own army—training, morale, trust, initiative, command and, to a lesser degree, supply, placement, movement, loyalty, and courage in battle.

I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love