Quotes About Courage

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Our generation has mastered the art of looking the other way when evil presents its face of terror and death.

I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.

Les autres [leaders de l'époque] suppliaient qu'on nous laisse entrer dans la maison de l'oppresseur, Malcolm [Malcolm X], lui, nous disait de construire notre propre maison

Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Non temere che la vita giunga a una fine, temi piuttosto che non abbia mai inizio.

I was a newly created Negro who must go out that door and live in a world unfamiliar to me.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

I'm not afraid, but I'm very nervous.

Safer than we are." I told Franny. "Safer than love." "let me tell ya kid," Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. "Everything's safer than love.

Love was certainly not safe - not ever.

I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

Hang in there, Frank!' Freud called - to the entire lobby. 'Don't let anyone tell you you're queer! You're a prince, Frank!' Freud cried. 'You're better than Rudolf!' Freud yelled to Frank. 'You're more majestic than all the Hapsburgs, Frank!' Freud encouraged him. Frank couldn't speak, he was crying so hard.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).

I'm just a woman with a penis! she would say, her voice rising.

If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you're doing probably isn't very vital. If you don't feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you're not trying to tell enough.

At that moment, everyone walks on the sky. Maybe all great decisions are made without a net," The Wonder herself had told him. "There comes a time, in every life, when you must let go.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

A man named Hero washed the press cloths; Meany Hyde told Homer that the man had been a kind of hero, once. 'That's all I heard. He's been comin' here for years, but he was a hero. Just once,' Meany added, as if there might be more shame attached to the rarity of the man's heroism than there was glory to be sung for his moment in the sun.

POKUD TI NA N??EM ZÁLEŽÍ, MUSÍÅ  SI TO CHRÁNIT; POKUD MÁÅ  TO Å TÄšSTÍ, ŽE JSI NAÅ EL ZPÅ®SOB ŽIVOTA, KTERÝ TI VYHOVUJE, MUSÍÅ  NAJÍT ODVAHU HO ŽÍT.

With women, Ernie Holm had some experience at taking no for an answer.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT—IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.

GUYS," Owen Meany said. That spring, less than a month before Gravesend Academy's graduation exercises, the TV showed us a map of Thailand; five thousand U.S. Marines and fifty jet fighters were being