Quotes About Courage

whoever would offer her injury or insult in the future must figure on making a full accounting to me. I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindliness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight.

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

For a naked man to drag a shrieking, clawing man-eater forth from a window by the tail to save a strange white girl, was indeed the last word in heroism.

Give them what you wish of it, what you think will not harm them, but do not feel aggrieved if they laugh at you.

Leave to a Thark his head and one hand and he may yet conquer.

Come, then, cried Tarzan, and prove your loyalty. It were better to die now than to live in slavery forever.

The girls head went high. There could be but one suitable reply to your assertion, Mr. Clayton, she said icily, and I regret that I am not a man, that I might make it. She turned quickly and entered the cabin.

If you don't think it's lonesome wandering all by yourself through savage, unknown Pellucidar, why, just try it, and you will not wonder that I was glad of the company of this first dog

nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage.

I am a fighting man, not a scientist. Here

Non ho mai seguito valori illusori, come il successo, ma ho cercato e trovato dei punti di forza che mi hanno consentito una concezione più ampia del mondo, una sempre rinnovata capacità di gratitudine nei confronti dei miei simili e una sincera umiltà che mi assiste oggi, mentre dalla mia piccola posizione di vantaggio lungo il cammino che va verso l'alto e non finisce mai, guardo la pazienza ammirevole e il coraggio di quelli che dietro di me lottano ancora.

I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes, he said moodily.

meant action was expected. But it wasn't too late. All I had to do was tell him

already." She withdrew a set of keys from her pocket, gave them a

I take courage," Aeneas said. "Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.

who kindled in each one the desire not to be left behind nursing a life without peril by his mother's side, but even at the price of death to drink with his comrades the peerless elixir of valor. They

Not because he had complete courage based on overwhelming strength, which is merely a matter of course, but because, by his sorrow for wrongdoing ad his willingness to do anything to expiate it, he showed greatness of soul.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

They journeyed far and the white bear said, Are you afraid? No, she replied. I am not afraid.

Where there was life, there was also hope.

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than scenes, except those who gave rise to them.

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!

Courage - that's the secret! If only people who are in love weren't always so afraid of risking their happiness by looking it in the eyes.