Quotes About Courage

And after all, they had been successful with the Jews and Gypsies and Bible Students.

Stuart said, "I hid once in the sidewalk. Do I have to do that again?" He looked around at the rest of them, seeking an answer. "Yes," Bonny said. "Then I will," he said. "But I came up out of the sidewalk; I didn't stay there. And I'll come up again.

Okay, he said to himself. Here goes.

You shouldn't be frightened so easily. Or life is going to be too much for you.

Let people call me crazy; fuck them.

Sometimes one must try anything, he decided. It is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom, of recognizing the situation.

Perhaps at some other time, when there was no war, men might not act this way, hurrying an individual to his death because they were afraid. Everyone was frightened, everyone was willing to sacrifice the individual because of the group fear.

We fought the Nazis, too, we 'good' Germans; verges' uns nei . Forget us never...The first human beings to fight to the death, to kill and be killed by the Nazis were - Germans.

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions - despite the objections of intellectuals. The courage to speak, perhaps, even when he believes that what he is suggesting sounds like madness.

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

because he's Will

Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, That's the last of 'em Lee. He said, or thought, Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we. She said, We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra. Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

Marisa! Marisa!" The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra's mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.

Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know.

You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.

She was afraid of John Faa, and what she was most afraid of was his kindness.

War asks many people to do unreasonable things.

So Lyra and her dæmon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked towards the sun, and walked into the sky.

Wir sind alle dem Schicksal unterworfen [...] aber wir müssen so tun, als seien wir es nicht, sonst würden wir vor Verzweiflung sterben.

I wish... she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on.

As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play the music in spite of that.