Quotes About Courage

has been afraid of all of these things at one time or another. Ever since he went to prison, he's realized that he doesn't have to be afraid. All he has to do is come up with a plan. Be prepared. It's just like the Boy Scouts, except you have to be even more prepared. You have to prepare for everything that the Boy Scouts didn't prepare you for, which is pretty much everything.

Kelly McClymer

Once your heart and mind are shattered, eternity's not so scary.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

You're a queer?" "That's exactly what I am. I didn't choose to be." After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck's shoulders. "Well, what the hell," he said. "At least you're not a Republican.

But desperate people find courage.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

He forced himself to take a single step forward; and once he had done that the second was a little less difficult, and the third was almost easy.

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.

You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.

Quien correr se propone a caer se dispone.»

Era fácil pronunciar palabras valientes en la oscuridad. La luz del día podía contar una historia muy diferente.

A Woodrow Wilson no lo amedrentaba la guerra. Su obra de teatro favorita era Enrique V, de Shakespeare, y le gustaba la cita: Si es pecado codiciar el honor, soy el mayor de todos los pecadores.

But everyone had to die, and Father had given his life for the sake of a better world. If more Germans had had his courage the Nazis would not have triumphed. She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.

Her Protestant pastor had been sympathetic, until the Gestapo terrified him into silence. Perhaps the same would happen again. But she did not know what else to do. Heinrich took

Je n'ai pas gagné au tribunal […] mais ce que j'ai obtenu est infiniment plus précieux. Aujourd'hui, j'ai sauvé l'âme d'un homme.

A country is mostly the people in it," Maud said. "I don't love England. My parents died a long time ago, and my brother has disowned me. I love Germany. For me, Germany is my wonderful husband, Walter; my misguided son, Erik; my alarmingly capable daughter, Carla; our maid, Ada, and her disabled son; my friend Monika and her family; my journalistic colleagues . . . I'm staying, to fight the Nazis.

Grigori had become good at that, and in consequence had won the loyalty of his platoon.

La resistencia pacífica es nuestra única esperanza.

A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .

We'll see, Grigori thought as he drifted off to sleep. Brave words came easily in the dark. Daylight might tell a different story.

Brave words came easily in the dark. Daylight might tell a different story.

The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.

Solo te pido una cosa —insistió—, no puedes perder la esperanza.