Quotes About Bravery

It's my experience that the people who are most afraid are the ones who hide behind mean and threatening words.

it's time I fear.

You're no hero. You're a coward. You only saved them from yourself.

But then a voice in me says, You're no hero. You're a coward. You only saved them from yourself.

Even if that something blew up in my face, I figure running toward is still better than running away

Now all I see is someone who's too afraid to get back out there. Everyone around you is going to give you a gentle push now and then, but never hard enough because they don't want to upset Poor Violet. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe--I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control.

The thing about fear,' said Cadfael, seriously considering, 'is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten. Would you recoil from taking a leper's hand, if he needed yours, or you his, to be hauled out of danger? I doubt it. Some men would, perhaps-- but of you I doubt it. You would grip first and consider afterwards, and by then fear would be clearly a mere waste of time.

Clement said it was like conditioning, prepar-ing for the ball-clutching moments of life while building your sphincter muscle. After lying in front of a freight train you can lie in bed in your underwear while two cops are visiting, asking about a certain black Buick—and while a mean-looking Walther P.38 automatic is hidden nearby at that very moment—and not worry about making doo-doo in the bed.

Il n'y a rien comme l'amour pour donner du courage aux jeunes gens.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Since they dared, I too will dare.

no le había quedado más remedio que hacerse una confesión: aún temblaba al ver pasar a Mouret, pero ahora sabía que no era de miedo.

Growing old is not for sissies.

We've braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and ask them to come. But, Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I'll keep you. I'll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won't rest till you are with me. I never will!

No coward soul is mine.

They are afraid of nothing... Together they would brave Satan and all his legions.

THEY are afraid of nothing,' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they would brave Satan and all his legions.

Don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Together they would brave satan and all his legions.

She did not yell out -- no! she would have scorned to do it, if she had been spitted on the horns of a mad cow. I did, though! I vociferated curses enough to annihilate any fiend in Christendom.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...

If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve— That's a steady posture— Never any bend Held of those Brass arms— Best Giant made— If your Soul seesaw— Lift the Flesh door— The Poltroon wants Oxygen— Nothing more—