Quotes About Courage

A noi si addice la paura della tenerezza

Îmi tot spun mereu c? am pu?ine sentimente. Dac? pun ceva la inim?, e doar pe jum?tate. Nu plâng aproape niciodat?. Nu-s mai puternic decât cei cu ochii umezi, ci mai slab. Ei au îndr?zneala. Când ai ajuns doar piele ?i oase, e curajos s? ai sentimente.

Había cometido la osadía de creer que no podría pasarme nada: después de todo, iba inmersa en un poema.

Quase nunca choro. Não sou mais forte do que aqueles que ficam de olhos molhados, sou mais fraco. Eles arriscam. Quando se tem só pele e osso, sentimentos são coragem. Eu prefiro ser cobarde.

O tédio é a paciência do medo.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak. "What will you do if I surrender?" he asked. "Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon. "And if I don't surrender?" "I'll eat you just the same.

Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant. Your problem, for example, is to slay dragons.

I musn't run away.

Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the Darkness.

With Weasel and Arisa at his side, anything was possible. Anything.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and face it with such weapons as you possess.

But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?

If a man spoke to you in that tone, you'd invite him to step outside and ask someone to hold your coat." 378

Look at my face: I am not afraid of any man alive.

I think, if you're going to kill a man, do it. Don't write him a letter about it. Don't bluster and threaten and put him on his guard.

He would rather know what's outside, see the summer in its sad blowing wreckage, than cower behind the blind and wonder what the damage is". - Thomas Cromwell - Wolf Hall

Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers.

Even when she said her last words, asking the people to pray for the king, she was looking over the head of the crowd. Still, she did not let hope weaken her. Few women are so resolute at the last, and not many men.

As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life.

My father doesn't have views. He would like to, but he can't take the risk.

By the blood of creeping Christ, stand on your feet." Creeping Christ? he thinks. What does he mean?