Charlie Munger Quotes

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Life has to be dangerous.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.

When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

Face the brutes. That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them

No cracked earth, no blistering sun, no burning wind, no grasshoppers, are a permanent match for the indomitable American farmers and stockmen and their wives and children who have carried on through desperate days, and inspire us with their self-reliance, their tenacity and their courage. It was their fathers' task to make homes; it is their task to keep those homes; it is our task to help them with their fight.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...