Quotes About Courage

Si je suis en pleine mer? Un jour, deux jours, un an, je nagerai sur le ventre. Quand je n'en pourrai plus, je me mettrai sur le dos. Ensuite, sur le côté. Puis sur un doigt, un fil de cheveu, un filet d' âme, un filet de souffle, un reste de soupir... Quoi qu'il advienne, je m'en sortirai. (extrait de "Jonas", p. 44)

If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you've never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you're going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important. I

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there's no change. It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it, go for it. You become a better human being.

I didn't take no for an answer. I've always been like that. If I think in my gut that I'm right, I do it. You have to have this kind of conviction. Otherwise, I would have given up many years ago. After the 1970s, all the performance artists started doing paintings and sculptures or architecture; performing was far too hard. I'm so happy I didn't give up.

If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you've never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you're going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important.

I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Nadira," Auntie tells me. "Those that hear bad news and want to run away and those that dig their feet in and want to fight.

Let them peck like old chickens," Abba laughed. "We know who we are.

What happened in war? People died -- that's what happened.' He fixed me with that stubborn clenched-jaw look. 'Those who were bravest perished first. Those who believed in something died for belief. Those who survived...' He starts to cough. 'You know that more than twenty million Soviet citizens perished in this war.

Why doesn't anyone ask me anything about the last two years?" I asked her. "The answer is very simple. We're afraid to ask because we're afraid of knowing... Maybe if we don't talk about it, and maybe if we pretend it never happened, it will be forgotten.

Now that I was lying safely in my bed, it had become much easier to be brave.

Nos da miedo preguntar porque nos da miedo saber.

Coyote stopped and turned to face me, his wrinkled eyes smoldering with feral determination. "Vato, have faith. Otherwise lie in the dirt like a turd and wait to be stepped on. Jolie

Deny your nature and you stand naked before the danger with your eyes closed.

Rechazar ciertas pruebas porque son difíciles es también rechazarnos a nosotros mismos, aunque no seamos conscientes de ello. No necesitamos reducir el tamaño de la prueba, sino aumentar nuestra fortaleza frente a ella.

Esto me recuerda a las palabras de Eleanor Roosevelt que decía que nadie podía hacerte sentirte inferior sin tu consentimiento.

La valentía no es la ausencia de miedo, Pablo, sino el atreverse a hacer lo que uno tiene que hacer a pesar

Habla de Compromisos, de Responsabilidades, de Valentías, de Desafíos, del Buen Sentido, de la Integridad, de la Grandeza, es decir, de cosas de las que en la Sociedad Mediática Actual no se habla en forma alguna porque intentar elevar constantemente el nivel de exigencia del ser humano se ha convertido en una ofensa grave a la condición humana. Hay demasiada gente que coloca el nivel de exigencia a ras de suelo "; pag. 12.

La búsqueda de uno mismo, de quien se es en realidad, es siempre un acto de heroicidad que implica aprender a superarse a sí mismo una y otra vez, para poco a poco ir expandiendo los límites de la propia identidad.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

The keen Saracen blade sliced through the archbishop's shield down to his arm, but Turpin's aim was truer. Corsablis's turbaned head rolled in the dust as the prelate swung his mighty weapon. The Berber's steed raced on, bearing a headless rider who soon toppled from his mount. Turpin, galloping on to where the press was thickest, turned in his saddle and addressed the head where it lay: 'Scoundrel pagan, you've met your end! So be it always with the enemies of Christ!

qué bueno que tengas el valor de ser distinto y no sucumbas al poder unánime

Usted no sabe, ya que nunca lo he dicho, siquiera en esas noches en que usted me descubre con sus manos incrédulas y libres. Usted no sabe como yo valoro su sencillo coraje de quererme

No te rindas, por favor no cedas, Aunque el frío queme, Aunque el miedo muerda, Aunque el sol se ponga y se calle el viento, Aún hay fuego en tu alma, Aún hay vida en tus sueños