Larry Wall Quotes

You need to have the courage to fail.

As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you-at this time of your life and in this world-will need particularly. That attribute is courage.

What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

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

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

This world is not for cowards.

But desperate people find courage.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

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

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.