Quotes About Courage

The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it.

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Jean M. Auel

I hate victims who respect their executioners

When a man hasn't the courage to kill himself wholesale, he must do so retail.' He would walk down to the water and say: 'Farewell to what I love most in the world...

What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

have spunks and do battle for yourself

Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world. Christophine to Antoinette

Just you touch me once. You'll soon see if I'm a damn coward like you are.

She was certainly rather drunk. Her eyes were fixed as if upon some far-off point. She seemed to be contemplating a future at once monotonous and insecure with an indifference which was after all a sort of hard-won courage.

Vous voulez que je sois sincère, répliquai-je, et vous voulez en même temps que je n'aie pas à rougir de moi. Comment ne voyez-vous pas que tout sentiment profond a des ramifications devant lesquelles on reste effrayé?

All that evil needs to triumph is the silence of good men« (»Alles, was das Böse braucht, um zu triumphieren, ist das Schweigen der guten Menschen«).

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self. Rex Walls, The Glass Castle

Right is right, even if you're alone.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.