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Quotes About Courage

Aku melarikan diri karena aku adalah seorang pengecut.
~ Khaled Hosseini
A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It's a funny thing Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Hanya ada aku dan Homaira melawan seluruh dunia. Dan aku memberitahumu Amir jan. Pada akhirnya, dunia akan selalu menang. Begitulah dunia berjalan.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The messenger who came with the news, he said that when they brought the boys back to camp, Ahmad Shah Massoud personally oversaw the burial. He said a prayer for them at the gravesite. That's the kind of brave young men your brothers were, Laila, that Commander Massoud himself, the Lion of Panjshir, God bless him, would oversee their burial.
~ Khaled Hosseini
You know nothing of courage," said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It's a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
~ Khaled Hosseini
That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.
~ Khaled Hosseini
she pushing her.
~ Khaled Hosseini
His parents were executed in the street. The neighbors saw it. You have death certificates? - Death certificates? This is Afghanistan we're talking about. Most people there don't have birth certificates.
~ Khaled Hosseini
And so Mariam raised the shovel high, raised it as high as she could, arching it so it touched the small of her back. She turned it so the sharp edge was vertical, and, as she did, it occurred to her that this was the first time she was deciding the course of her own life. And, with that, Mariam brought down the shovel. This time, she gave it everything she had.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It's a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Recordé algo que en una ocasión Baba había mencionado sobre los pastunes. «Puede que seamos cabezotas, y sé que somos excesivamente orgullosos, pero, en un momento de necesidad, créeme que no hay nadie mejor que un pastún a tu lado.»
~ Khaled Hosseini
Det var vad jag tvingade mig själv att tro. Faktum var att jag ville vara feg, för alternativet, det verkliga skälet till att jag flydde, var att Assef hade rätt: ingenting var gratis här i världen. Kanske var Hassan det pris jag måste betala, det lamm jag måste slakta, för att vinna Baba.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Emin olman?n tek yolu oraya geri dönmek.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Tak ada lagi kebaikan di tanah ini dan kami tidak bisa melarikan diri dari kematian. Pembantaian selalu mengancam.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I den stunden såg jag något jag aldrig skulle glömma, Hassan som serverade Assef och Wali något att dricka från en silverbricka.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Dia berhenti bicara kepada warga desa, karena dia yakin bahwa mereka menggunjingkannya di belakang punggungnya. Kata mereka, dia pengecut karena dengan suka rela menyerahkan anaknya. Dia tidak pantas menjadi ayah. Ayah sejati akan melawan sang div. Dia akan mati membela keluarganya.
~ Khaled Hosseini
You know nothing of courage. said Baba Ayub. For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose. You have your life to lose, said the div. You already took that from me.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Look at me. Mariam did. Only one skill. And it's this: tahamul. Endure. Endure what, Nana? Oh, don't you fret about that, Nana said. There won't be any shortage of things.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Kau tak tahu apa-apa soal keberanian. Untuk menjadi berani, harus ada yang dipertaruhkan. Aku datang tanpa mempertaruhkan apa pun.
~ Khaled Hosseini
They say no such things," his wife replied. "No one thinks you are a coward." "I can hear them," he said. "It is your own voice you are hearing, husband," she said.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Nothing wrong with cowardice, as long as it comes with prudence, but when a coward stops remembering who he is, God helps him.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
~ Khaled Hosseini