Quotes about Courage

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Even if he was ever afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

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.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it.

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.

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.

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.

It is silly not to hope, he thought.

We are stronger in our broken places.