Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Quotes to Explore
-
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
-
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
-
My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
-
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
-
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
-
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
-
Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.
-
Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
-
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
-
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
-
It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.
-
I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
-
British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
-
I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember - something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.
-
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
-
This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions - never.
-
Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.
-
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
-
You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.
-
I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.
-
When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
-
To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available
-
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
