Quotes about Courage

Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.

A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.

To dare; that is the price of progress.

And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old régime became the new régime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.

He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Is it right to raise one's voice when others are being silenced? Yes.

Because love means renouncing strength.

When the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Sabina once allowed herself to be taken along to a gathering of fellow emigres. As usual, they were hashing over whether they should or should not have taken up arms against the Russians. In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting. Sabina said: Then why don't you go back and fight?