“Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!” Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!” “An excellent point,” said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . .”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 83 of 1106
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
“The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.”
“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.”
“The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.”
“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”
“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.”
“The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. the Jews always considered an oath regarding a Christian not binding. During the Campaign of 1812 the Jews were spies, they were paid by both sides, they betrayed both sides. It is seldom that the police investigate a robbery in which a Jew is not found either to be an accomplice or a receiver.”
“This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.”
“Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.”
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
“I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...”
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
“Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.”
“Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!”
“The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.”
“I have fought too hard and for too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry.”
“The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.”
“Out here, due process is a bullet.”