Quotes about Courage
He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.
— Ernest Hemingway
It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it.
— Ernest Hemingway
It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.
— Ernest Hemingway
All supposed exterior signs of danger that a bull gives, such as pawing the ground, threatening with his horns, or bellowing are forms of bluffing. They are warnings given in order that combat may be avoided if possible. The truly brave bull gives no warning before he charges except the fixing of his eye on the enemy, the raising of the crest of muscle in his neck, the twitching of an ear, and, as he charges, the lifting of his tail.
— Ernest Hemingway
Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.
— Ernest Hemingway
It is silly not to hope, he thought.
— Ernest Hemingway
We are stronger in our broken places.
— Ernest Hemingway
Lie life through its fullest
— Ernest Hemingway
Do you want to keep your knee, young man?' 'No', I said. 'What?' 'I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it.
— Ernest Hemingway
Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public.
— Ernest Hemingway
And pain does not matter to a man.
— Ernest Hemingway
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.
— Ernest Hemingway