Quotes About Courage

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)

In the course of the war, 168,000 Soviet citizens were formally sentenced to death and executed for alleged cowardice or desertion;

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

Der moralische Einfluß nimmt da seinen Anfang, wo die Demütigung beginnt, ja er ist nichts anderes, als diese Demütigung selbst, die Brechung und Beugung des Mutes zur Demut herab.

Habt nur den Mut, destruktiv zu sein, und ihr werdet bald sehen, welch' herrliche Blume der Eintracht aus der fruchtbaren Asche aufschießt.

And what is our trickery, shrewdness, courage, obduracy? What else but - mind!

For bourgeois classes as such have seldom before and never since displayed heroism. It was "the last of our heroisms", as Carlyle, not without reason, has said. 

But the person who can do this must be a leader; not only that, he must, in a very simple sense of the word, be a hero.

It is somewhat too convenient to demonstrate one's courage in taking a stand where the audience and possible opponents are condemned to silence.

Sólo quien está seguro de no quebrarse cuando, desde su punto de vista, el mundo se muestra demasiado estúpido o demasiado abyecto para lo que él le ofrece; sólo quien frente a todo esto es capaz de responder con un «sin embargo»; sólo un hombre de esta forma construido tiene «vocación» para la política.

Únicamente quien está seguro de no doblegarse cuando, desde su punto de vista, el mundo se muestra demasiado necio o demasiado abyecto para aquello que él está ofreciéndole; únicamente quien, ante todas estas adversidades, es capaz de oponer un "sin embargo"; únicamente un hombre constituido de esta manera podrá demostrar su "vocación para la política".

Let the storm rage ever stronger!

What was love if it wasn't their own dauntless spirits pushing them toward their heart's desire?

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

I took the lake between my legs.

My hands scrabbled in a wide, frantic arc and touched something hard and round. Wood. I pulled myself forward a few inches, grasped it and, afraid to look, felt above it to a firm, cloth-covered surface. It was a chair. I forced my eyes open. I

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Will you tell me how a man's to live, and face his life, if he can't believe that truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen though it takes all the years there are? While I stand up and have breath in my lungs I shall be one flame of that fire; it's all the life I have.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.