Quotes About Courage

What do you expect us to do, gospazha? Throw rocks at Warden?" Wyoh smiled. "Yes, we could throw rocks.

Robert A. Heinlein

Curiously, people usually resist their good qualities even more emphatically than they resist facing their negative qualities. There may be a character in your dream who behaves in a noble and courageous way. Since that inner person is part of you, its qualities are also yours. So long as you are facing your negative and immature traits squarely, you also have a duty to acknowledge the fine qualities in yourself, and to live them consciously.

On the other hand, he was compassionate because he knew pain, real pain, and real suffering too. Yet even in those bouts when it looked for sure as if he would die, he was never given morphine, not even as his screams of pain rattled the palace windows. That poor child had traveled to the bottom of life and back again, and naturally that had had a profound effect on him.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.

As Paul Watzlawick notes, that which is objectively repressed (unspeakable) soon becomes subjectively repressed (unthinkable). Nobody likes to feel like a coward and a liar constantly. It is easier to cease to notice where the official tunnel-reality differs from existential fact. Thus SNAFU accelerates and rigiditus bureaucraticus sets in — the last stage before all brain activity ceases and the pyramid is clinically dead as an intellectual entity.

The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.

I've got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind I'm a bad motherfucker and I don't mind dyin

Joyce announced that he did not believe in heroes, and Bloom is no hero: just an ordinary decent man. There are a million like him in any large city: Joyce was merely the first to put him in a novel, with biological functions and timid courage unglamorized and uncensored.

The obedient always think about themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.

Tough is what you do, more than it is how you feel about it before or after," I said. "You're tough enough.

E.M. Forster, who said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying his friend, he hoped he'd have the courage to betray his country.

Who is he?" "Jiminy Cricket," I said. "He hangs around to make

To kill a man you need three things: the gun and the balls?" "We can get the gun okay

Being tough means looking straight at something ugly, and saying, That's ugly; I'll have to find a way to deal with it. And doing so.

Perhaps the one absolute essential to growing up well is being tough enough," Susan said. "Like us," I said.

Robert B. Parker

He who would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Ten minutes out of the city I made Hawk stop the car and I threw up on the side of the road. When I got back in the car Hawk said, "You shot Leo to protect those whores." I nodded. "Had to be done," Hawk said. "I know." "You'll feel better in a while," Hawk said. "Better than Leo," I said.

All at once that was the most important thing—to get out of the dark.

A week ago, Norman would never have dared. But this wasn't a week ago, it was now, and things were different. It was now, and he had to face the truth.

Podrán romperme los huesos con palos y piedras, pero las palabras jamás podrán herirme.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.