Quotes About Courage

Miguel de Cervantes

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

Não tenho medo das palavras, mas calo-me.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual can attain is to know how to face ridicule; better still, to know how to make oneself ridiculous and not to shrink from the ridicule.

I will not resign from life; I must be dismissed.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Dime, Catarro, ¿por qué si uno sabe nadar flota sin moverse y cuando no sabe se hunde? – El miedo pesa, hijo.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.

Eu, Diogo Ribera Flores, filho do campo e do sequeiro, herdeiro de sobreiros, azinheiras e oliveiras, alentejano por berço e condenação perpétua, deixei mulher e filhos, deixei mãe e irmão, deixei terra e Pátria, deixei esse ar espesso e opressivo de um Portugal amordaçado, para flutuar neste balão gigante sobre o mar e sobre a vida, esperando que no fim da viagem haja um Novo Mundo à minha espera.

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble. The unwarranted sense of security sooner or later results in a rude awakening. When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.

If goals are well chosen, and if we have the courage to abide by them despite opposition, we shall be so focused on the actions and events around us that we won't have the time to be unhappy.

When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.

It is for this reason that courage, resilience, perseverance, mature defense, or transformational coping—the dissipative structures of the mind—are so essential. Without them we would be constantly suffering through the random bombardment of stray psychological meteorites. On the other hand, if we do develop such positive strategies, most negative events can be at least neutralized, and possibly even used as challenges that will help make the self stronger and more complex.

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a very rare gift. Those who possess it are called "survivors," and are said to have "resilience," or "courage.

It is precisely because the unknowns are so great and dangerous that we require some manner of faith to choose our path and to give us courage.