Quotes About Courage

The man who was going to sound out Roeder was just about their only mainstay at Pokorny. Was it permissible to risk one man's life for another's? Under what conditions was it permissible? Hermann weighed it all in his mind, back and forth, and came to the conclusion that yes, it was permissible. Not only permissible, but necessary.

Wir fühlten alle, wie tief und furchtbar die äußeren Mächten in den Mensch hineingreifen können, bis in sein Innerstes, aber wir fühlten auch, dass es im Innersten etwas gab, was unangreifbar war und unverletzbar.

If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.

Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees was the inscription on the base.

I have no idea what the future looks like but I can still dive in and I intend to keep doing it.

Lageris buvo sunkiausias m?s? moralin?s stipryb?s,m?s? kasdien?s moral?s egzaminas ir 99 proc. jo neišlaik?,-raš? Šalamovas.

Anne Applebaum

J'accuse," published in 1898, Emile Zola

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

often. I did

If you try to quit I will eat you!

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore.

She swallowed hard. "I want to try skinny-dipping." He was so still, she wasn't sure he was even breathing.

You may be small, but you kick like a moose. Which is something I'm telling the rest of the Wolves." Great just what she needed. Yep, that's our Liasion. Meg Moosekicker.

I'm not cs747," she whispered defiantly as she shifted on her cot in order to lean back against the wall. "My name is Jean.

It was hard to be around Jean because he looked at her and saw what Meg's future would have been if she hadn't been brave enough to run away—and if Jean hadn't been brave enough to stay.

You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living.

Don't let them win. Fight with everything that's in you.

You can't fall if you're already on the floor when you faint. Words to live by.

Insidious bastard," she whispered. "I don't know how you gave me that gut-jab of fear, but I won't forget you can use my own heart against me. I won't give up the landscapes in my care. Not even this one. And I won't let you have any of them. I'll find a way to do alone what it took hundreds like me to do the last time. And by the time I'm finished, I will lock you in a landscape even *you* will find unbearable.

It takes time to find the courage to display the parts of yourself that aren't bright and shining. But you have to see them, have to know they're inside you...shadows in the garden. They are a part of all of us.

I refused to be less than what I am, and I made them deal with me on my own terms.

People will use anything that comes to hand when they're fighting for their lives—or for someone else's.

That one has more brass than an orchestra and more nerve than a sore tooth. So I sincerely doubt I make her nervous.