what's a good quote to use if you're examining a character who has no backbone and will help me connect it to this character in the story.
2007-11-17 04:14:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground." ~~unknown
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." ~~ Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and novelist (1804-1881)
"Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use."
~~Ruth Gordon, American actress (1896-1985)
"No one reaches a high position without daring." ~~Publilius Syrus, Syrian-born Latin writer of maxims (fl. 1st century B.C.)
"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become." ~~Brooke Foss Westcott, British theology professor and bishop (1825-1901)
"To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice."
~~ Confucius (K'ung-Fu-tzu), Chinese philosopher (551-479 B.C.)
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." ~~William Shakespeare, English dramatist (1564-1616)
2007-11-23 13:11:02 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Louis Stevenson - “You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometime fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand.”
Napoléon Bonaparte - “A resolute determination is the truest wisdom.”
Sydney J. Harris - “We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we stop saying 'It got lost,' and say 'I lost it.'”
2007-11-17 08:00:59 · answer #2 · answered by violingirl7777 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about someone who is a coward and cannot achieve anything without thinking about failure:
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."-Aristotle
2007-11-17 18:01:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind, is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our opinions and the decisions of our will."
~Epictetus
"First, decide who you would be. Then, do what you must do."
~Epictetus
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
-Joseph Conrad
"There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. "
~George Benard Shaw
2007-11-23 14:09:30 · answer #4 · answered by ___ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋