Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Must one point out that from ancient times a decline in courage has been considered the first symptom of the end?

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

I have guts, just not when it counts.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.

He who is afraid is half beaten.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

You gotta learn to love when you're failing.... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.