Quotes About Bravery

Are you a man or a mouse?

What does it mean to be brave? This was a question Brother Edik asked himself as he walked through the dark woods with Jack Dory and Cannoc and Answelica. To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.

She herself often felt too terrified to go on, but she had never admitted it out loud

Despereaux turned. He looked up and into the Head Mouse's eyes. They were dark eyes, deep and sad and frightened. And as Despereaux looked into them, his heart thudded once, twice.

the story of an unlikely hero

To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.

Fear is a big waste of time.

He said, 'I forgive you, Pa. And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his own heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.

Despereaux felt a very intense pain in his hindquarters.

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?

He can put us in jail for trespassing. I don't care.

Minnie had spasms of bravery, when well surrounded by the machinery of law and order.

I'd never go back—I might be frightened, but I'd be ashamed to run.

You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh.

Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.

There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.

If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve

Stay down, Stubby, or you'll get your head shot off," Conroy warned me. He didn't have to tell me. Seeing as how I was fond of my head, I lay low when the bullets flew.

I have just rid the road of the three big bad bullies!" Theseus proclaimed. "Oh, bull!" shouted a shopper. "Yeah!" shouted another. "You and what army?" "I did it alone!" Theseus called. "With my bare hands!" Good boy! I thought.

name the boy Chickapeckeus.

Courage is a fair-weather friend.

But, truthfully, I lacked the courage to jump.' 'Perhaps it takes more courage not to,' Sandrine said

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

Ain't 'cha gonna run? she asked. No, he said, shoving the sheet away. I'm gonna fly.