"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

Courage, Desire

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

Exlpore more Courage quotes

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Courage, Faith, First

"Live dangerously and you live right."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Courage, Right

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Courage, History, Pain

"Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Courage, Sacrifice, Determination, Strength, Strategy

"What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Courage, Fear, Survival, Action

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Courage, Fear, Action, Truth

"Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Courage, Fear, Love, Heart, Reaction

"I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Courage, Risk, Trust, Strength

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Courage, Bravery, Fear, Strength

"If we stop helping people because we're afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I'll stop them."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Courage, Help, Fear, Evil, Choice

Explore more quotes by Thomas Carlyle

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

Vision

"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."

Vision

"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."

Science

"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."

Life

"Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim."

Time

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

Music

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."

Science

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Age

"Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero."

Religion

"Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!"

Strength