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Quotes About Courage

Todo va a ir bien, ¿verdad, papá? Sí. Todo irá bien. Y no nos va a pasar nada malo. Desde luego que no. Porque nosotros llevamos el fuego. Así es. Porque llevamos el fuego.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ac?tt?, deÄŸil mi? dedi oÄŸlan. Evet. Ac?tt?. Sahiden cesur musun? Orta karar. Yapt???n en cesurca ÅŸey ne? Yola kanl? bir balgam tükürdü. Bu sabah uyanmak, dedi. Sahiden mi? Hay?r. Bana ald?rma. Gel hadi, gidelim.
~ Cormac McCarthy
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I
~ Cormac McCarthy
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it. That the desire was the thing itself. The thing itself. I could think of nothing else of which that was true.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first, after this all other betrayals came easily
~ Cormac McCarthy
All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
John Grady, de pie ante la ventana del café vacío, observando las actividades de la plaza, dijo que era bueno que Dios ocultase las verdades de la vida a los jóvenes cuando empezaban pues de otro modo no tendrían ánimos para empezar.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If you carry your past into battle you are riding to your death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I know that small acts of valor may be all that is visible of great movements of courage within.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said one time that just because the world was spinning didnt mean that you couldnt get off. There's
~ Cormac McCarthy
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Well, I'll tell ye, they ain't no more heroes.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Overseen all day by a goldtoothed pervert who carried a plaited rawhide quirt and harried them down the gutters on their knees gathering up the filth.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You speak truer than you know. But I will tell you. Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance.
~ Cormac McCarthy
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
~ Cornel West
As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.
~ Cornel West
Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.
~ Cornel West
Being a hope is being in motion, on the move with body on the line, mind set on freedom, soul full of courage, and heart shot through with love. Being a hope is forging moral and spiritual fortitude, putting on intellectual armor, and being willing to live and die for the empowerment of the wretched of the earth.
~ Cornel West
Those notions of freedom, courage and joy would probably be the three fundamental motifs in my work, and I think that they are probably best enacted in the best of the black musical tradition.
~ Cornel West