Quotes About Courage

all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous:

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We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Adventure is not outside a man it is within.

She breathes as if he had held her hand and helped her jump over the chasm of that scar.

C'è un momento in cui si compie un piccolo passo, pensò, si devia di un millimetro dalla solita via, a quel punto si è costretti a posare anche un secondo piede e d'un tratto si finisce si un percorso sconosciuto.

Perchè il coraggio,secondo lei,è assecondare i desideri della propria anima

The book should betray me, in the sense that it should take me to places I am afraid to go

I like to do things that frighten me. When I'm afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, 'I should do it. If I don't do it, no one will do it for me.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.

Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.

Fiddlesticks!" Rall replied. "These clodhoppers will not attack us, and should they do so, we will simply fall on them and rout them."58 (on describing that they had nothing to fear from the COlonists of New Jersey before the night of December 25, 1776; when Washington and his men crossed the Deleware.)

These are the times that try men's souls," Paine began. "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

because love is a critical ingredient in the fireman's code, which demands that you are willing to risk your life for your fire-house brothers.

Was he the kind of man you wanted next to you in a foxhole?—a saying used almost always by men who had never been in foxholes about other men who had never been in foxholes either.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

she had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.

A lição é clara: enquanto nós arquitetos rebeldes não conhecermos a coragem de nossa mente e estivermos preparados para dar um mergulho igualmente especulativo em algum desconhecido, também nós continuaremos a ser objetos da geografia histórica (como abelhas operárias) em vez de sujeitos ativos que levem conscientemente ao limite as possibilidades humanas.

Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.

But, he added, in a rare moment of self-revelation, "such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle.