Quotes About Courage

The best thing about being who you really are is that you simply cannot fail! Be you, be awesome and live awesomely.

People will judge you no matter what, so be who you are and what you want to be. Don't worry about what anybody else thinks.

You are who you are for a reason; don't let what someone else says about you get to you. Believe and know that what you are is a winner no matter what they say or do.

The worse thing you can ever do to yourself is to be ashamed of being you just because of what other people will think...that's a suicide to your existence.

I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession which must have been painful to her, that it was a first step down from the ideal she had formed for me, and that for the first time she, with all her courage, had to confess herself beaten.

These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of lovers the most unpredictable of all, a life in which it can rain sulfur and pitch a moment after the sunniest spell and where, without having the courage to learn from our misfortunes, we immediately start building again on the slopes of the crater which can only spew out catastrophe. I was carefree in the way of those who think their happiness can last.

age, when we add to the pan that holds our suffering a physical pain which we have acquired and have let grow, then, instead of the courageous solution that would have carried the day at one-and-twenty, it is the other, grown too heavy and insufficiently balanced, that crushes us down at fifty.

Et chaque fois la lâcheté qui nous détourne de toute tâche difficile, de toute oeuvre importante, m'a conseillé de laisser cela, de boire mon thé en pensant simplement à mes ennuis d'aujourd'hui, à mes désirs de demain qui se laissent remâcher sans peine.

Certainly we are obliged to relive our particular suffering with the courage of a physician who tries over again upon himself an experiment with a dangerous serum.

The hope of being relieved gives him the courage to suffer.

He lost his temper once only, because she cried, which he considered cowardly, unworthy of her. People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

D??ar?dan dayat?lan manevi bir darbenin uzant?s? olan ac? ?ekil de?i?tirmek ister; planlar yap?p bilgi toplamaya çal??arak onu buharla?t?raca??m?z? umut ederiz; say?s?z ba?kala??m evresinden geçmesini dileriz, çünkü bu, ac?y? oldu?u gibi korumak kadar cesaret gerektirmez; ac?m?zla birlikte uzand???m?z yatak bize darac?k, sert, so?uk gelir.

whatever reason they give, simply don't want to be killed, it's nothing but funk." And with a more emphatic gesture than when he alluded to others, "And if I don't rejoin my regiment, it's for the same reason.

For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike.

in my cowardice I became at once a man,

Nos rodean suficientes sombras ya, no agregues otras.

Any life, bad as it may be, is better than nothing. Better than terror and that frozen fear of death. It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

Cuando llora el corazón sólo Dios escucha, el dolor se eleva desde el alma. Corta el silencio una pequeña oración. Una lágrima en mis ojos, el corazón llora en silencio. Y cuando el corazón está en silencio, el alma grita Dios mío, ahora estoy completamente solo Hazme fuerte... para que ya no tema. Es grande el dolor y no hay hacia donde correr. Ya no me queda fuerza. Cuando llora el corazón, el tiempo se detiene. SAMUEL ALBAZ

I think what touched me most was a letter sent by a convent of Dominican nuns. This wonderful missive urged courage and fortitude; it was sort of the Dominican version of "Go, girlfriend.

Acepta tus miedos pues son los que te han retado para que desarrolles la misma fuerza y coraje de un esforzado caballero en la batalla.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

We serve others as much by our weaknesses as by our strengths. The only difficult is that it takes humility and courage to be able to live by it.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.