Mao Zedong Quotes

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don't be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I die hard but am not afraid to go.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Every day I wake up like, "This might be my last day, and I'm not scared of it. I'm gonna go out there, do what I gotta do; I ain't gonna let nothing stop me." Nothing puts any fear in my heart. I'm never scared to bite my tongue about something, or never be scared to come out and speak about something - that's what I mean. Like, I ain't scared of death. What you gonna do to me?

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.