Robert Frost Quotes

I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

Take a walk on the wild side.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

Come on, fire bullets at me. I am prepared to die for the sake of the people.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

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.

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart.