Quotes About Courage

It is in my mind that a people faced with death or slavery as their only choices are not readily going to relinquish war. - Longinus Sdapeze

We are not given the choice of how and when we must serve, only whether we do so with courage and so perhaps succeed, or with fear, in which case we will certainly fail.

I agree. Kick his ass, sweetheart.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. I like to fly, not to kill.

A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

Wir wollen reden zu dieser Welt, kein halbes, sondern ein ganzes Wort, ein mutiges Wort, ein christliches Wort.

1. September Wenn wir nicht den Mut haben, wieder ein echtes Gefühl für menschliche Distanzen aufzurichten und darum persönlich zu kämpfen, dann kommen wir in einer Anarchie menschlicher Werte um.

Stille vor Gott bedarf der Arbeit und der Übung. Sie bedarf des täglichen Mutes, sich Gottes Wort auszusetzen und von ihm richten zu lassen, bedarf der täglichen Frische, sich an Gottes Liebe zu freuen.

Wir müssen es auch riskieren, anfechtbare Dinge zu sagen, wenn dadurch nur lebenswichtige Fragen aufgerührt werden.

Everthing is fear in love and war

When one was reinventing oneself, anywhere could be home. Pull up your shallow roots and move. Find a new place, new friends, a new family. It had been possible once, it would be possible again.

W]e must have the courage to break with traditional law, establish ourselves in our own way of life. We must do so harmoniously, cooperatively, and courageously. We must do so with the full conviction that those who are selfish, those who are ignorant— and they are not necessarily uneducated, but those profoundly ignorant—will be unhappy about the whole thing.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

Even pragmatic people needed a totem of goodness to buoy them against life's tyrannies.

No matter who we are, what we believe in or who we love. We are all heroes.

Fleeing is part of the struggle.

Moltes coses havien estat possibles perquè ell no havia dit no. Perquè els altres que eren com ell no havien dit que no. No n'hi havia prou de refusar-se interiorment i obeir de mala gana. Calia dir que no.

O què t'estimaries més quedar-te soltera? Potser sí que ho hauria preferit. I si un dia necessitava un home... doncs bé, el podria haver sense donar-li cap dret sobre la seva vida.

El ciego sol, la sed y la fatiga... Por la terrible estepa castellana, al destierro, con doce de los suyos (polvo sudor y hierro), el Cid cabalga.

Antes que poeta hubiera preferido ser un buen banderillero

los excesos de generosidad llevan a mecenas y filántropos a la ruina, de igual manera que la valentía, o la audacia, solo son exigibles ante la inevitable presencia de la muerte.

Los héroes siempre juegan a matar.

Ha sido más recio que la miseria y que la burla.