Quotes About Courage

A crucial difference between Æthelred and Alfred, however, is that Alfred fought against his enemies in person.

not least because he eventually died a martyr's death,

plucky little Britannia throwing off Roman rule and beating the barbarians into the bargain

Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale. —Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, on sailing up the Colorado River to a point near the present location of Las Vegas, in 1857

that only those who dare, who demanded more of themselves than others believed possible, could make great things happen.

Tant de lâcheté et de mensonge me font monter le cœur aux lèvres.

C'était mon premier grand départ. Si voyager seul, c'est voyager avec le Diable, je me félicite de l'avoir fait.

Il n'y a pas de courage triste. [in Journal sous l'occupation]

Au milieu d'un monde qui s'écroule, on veut mourir debout. [in Journal sous l'occupation]

Il n'est pas besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer.

Les malheurs n'inspirent jamais confiance, et l'horreur des grands massacres enlaidit jusqu'aux victimes.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

Car l'instinct d'imitation et l'absence de courage gouvernent les sociétés comme les foules.

But old age, to begin with, has something in common with death. Some face it with indifference, not because they have more courage than others, but because they have less imagination.

Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.

We reason, that is, our mind wanders, each time our courage fails to force us to pursue an intuition through all the successive stages which end in its fixation, in the expression of its own reality.

for the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side),

Like a swimmer who throws himself into the water in order to learn, but chooses a moment when there are not too many people to see him.

More than anything else the viscount's sad, sweet gaze made the boy feel like crying. Alexis knew that those eyes had always been sad and, even in the happiest moments, they seemed to implore a consolation for sufferings that he did not appear to experience. But at this moment Alexis believed that his uncle's sadness, courageously banished from his conversation, had taken refuge in his eyes, which, along with his sunken cheeks, were the only sincere things about his entire person.

A esperança de ser aliviado lhe dá ânimo para sofrer.