Quotes About Courage

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO It is necessary to be very strong against something

Now you are getting confused in the head, he thought. You must keep your head clear. Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

He was mad and plenty brave.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.

Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.

Pero el hombre no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places

No one lives his whole life besides toreadors.

He was probably a coward," she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them." "I don't know. It's hard to see inside the head of the brave." "Yes. That's how they keep that way.

his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? He

It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water. It raked back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him. His dorsal fin was down and his huge pectorals were spread wide.

that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides I believe it is a sin.

Ara went down and Thomas Hudson was alone with the night and the sea and he still rode it like a horse going downhill too fast across broken country.

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

Mas o homem não foi feito para a derrota — disse em voz alta. — Um homem pode ser destruído, mas nunca derrotado

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?

They're funny people," Thomas Hudson said. "They're all brave and some of them are so damned admirable. Then they have mean ones like this.

Each time he fought he fought to kill and the other bulls were not afraid of him because they came of good blood and were not afraid.