Quotes About Courage

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh! Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes! The danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing! A-aa-aaa-aaaah!

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

She believed she could so she did.

What did she do to you? Matilda asked. I don't want to talk about it, Miss Honey said. It's too horrible. But surely you could have complained to somebody? Matilda said. To whom? Miss Honey said. And anyway, I was far too terrified to complain. I told you, I was her slave. Did she beat you? Let's not go into details, Miss Honey said.

Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush--climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away.

What if they come after us?' said Mr Bucket, speaking for the first time.

I IS ABEL TO JUMP OUT OF ANY HIGH WINDOW AND FLOTE DOWN SAFELY.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

And Mrs. Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we should all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.' Mr. Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that.

Sebagian besar hal seru yang kita lakukan dalam hidup ini membuat kita takut setengah mati. Hal-hal itu tidak akan seru kalau tidak menakutkan -Danny

The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda!

My Great Glass Elevator is ready for anything! In we go! Into the breach, dear friends, into the breach!

no one had really believed such an enormous thing would ever get off the ground without blowing up.

You'd have been fossilized with fear and glued to the ground! Then they'd have got you! You'd have been a cooked cucumber! You'd have been rasped into a thousand tiny bits, grated like cheese and flocculated alive! They'd have made necklaces from your knucklebones and bracelets from your teeth!

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started!

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

She seemed to know that neither crying nor sulking ever got anyone anywhere. The only sensible thing to do when you're attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. If you're kind, that's it.

My name is Sophie

There isn't a hope.

Here I come, you grizzly old grunion! You rotten old turnip! You filthy old frumpet!