Allan Boesak Quotes

He that is down needs fear no fall.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

I'm not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I'd confront him as well.

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride.

To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

I'm never going to turn down a fight.

I never turn down a fight.

I fear no accusations.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

The sea hates a coward.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.