Quotes About Bravery

Now is the time for guts and guile

FLY THE PLANE, MADDIE.

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Kiss me, Hardy!' Weren't those Nelson's last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don't cry. We're still alive and we make a sensational team.

All the while he's been moving towards her, both stoat to rabbit and moth to flame. And she's staring at him, flame-bright and rabbit-scared, too brave to look away.

Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies?

The thing about fear," said Cadfael, seriously considering, "is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten.

Wild ran to get his rifle from his tent, then he dropped to one knee and shot.

In a tired hand he concluded the entry: "My dogs will be shot tomorrow.

Into the jaws of death,Into the mouth of hellRode the six hundred.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die.

Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of deathRode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon in front of themVolley'd and thunder'd.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Lima lo obligaba a uno a andarse inventando trucos y aventuras para ocultar tanto miedo.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Inability is a disaster; patience is bravery; abstinence is a treasure, self-restraint is a shield; and the best companion is submission to Divine Will.

Finally she lets herself think about how it feels: to be so frightened that you almost can't breathe to speed so fast and be so completely out of control to know the meaning of helplessness to spin across a shining space knowing any moment you might end up hurt, but likewise, all the same, like plus wise you just might not.

So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.

If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things.

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best courage of all.