Quotes About Courage

Hope is the physician of each misery.

True strength lies in gentleness.

Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War, Magda Denes

Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi

I hesitate to demonstrate my ignorance, which is never a good idea, by the way. Because you only get oppressed.

A writer in the act of writing must fear neither his own words nor anything else in the world. A writer who is afraid is no true writer.

I bet you never had to live through really tough times." "Yes, I did," he says. Well, I'm not going to ask what he considers tough times. There are those who already feel sorry for themselves when they haven't had a hot meal by three in the afternoon.

Adventure cannot be had where some degree of danger or risk is not present. Any life lived to a fully satisfying extend carries risk in its very nature.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Foolish old age is no less pitiful than cowardly youth.

Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)

Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You're a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You're twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you'd have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth

Chase the vision regardless of what other people do, say, or think.

Envisioning without action, is the equivalent of praying without faith.

To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.

When I can read my title clearTo mansions in the skies,I'll bid farewell to every fear,And wipe my weeping eyes.

Ich glaube, dass die Angst die man hat, wenn man an einem Abgrund steht, in Wahrheit vielmehr eine Sehnsucht ist. Eine Sehnsucht sich fallen zu lassen- oder die Arme auszubreiten und zu fliegen.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.