Quotes About Bravery

I don't feel at all brave,' thought Jack, 'but I suppose a person is really bravest when he does something although he is frightened. So here goes!

Well – fortune favours the bold!

And if you dare to put so much as half

Cowardice is just thinking of your own miserable skin instead of somebody else's.

I don't tell untruths. I think it's being a coward if you don't tell the truth – and I'm not a coward.

19. FIVE GO TO DEMON'S ROCKS

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

Arthur scowled. "The green death-ray colors? Yes, I can see those. I would prefer to see them from a great distance, so can we please get out of here?

Ja, ik zou maar snel wegvliegen, Tweety! - Holly

harður maður.

Don't think about it, Holly told herself. Don't think about the white-hot magma flow that's going to engulf this tiny craft. Don't think about hurtling toward the surface with a MACH 2 force trying to turn you inside out. And certainly don't think about the blood-crazed troll ready to disembowel you with his tusks. Nope. Don't think about any of that stuff.…Too late.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

They may kill me, but they cannot hurt me. —Socrates

It is better to live with one free man and to be without fear and free, than to be a slave with many.

No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it – or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

No seas cobarde y evasivo.

But when he comes in thunder and lightning brandishing these things, and I show fear in response, in effect I have been brought face to face with my master, just like a runaway slave.

death is nothing to fear in itself, or Socrates would have run from it.

No, I cannot escape death, [10] but at least I can escape the fear of it – or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

Bravery is a scorner of things which inspire fear; it looks down upon, challenges, and crushes the powers of terror and all that would drive our freedom under the yoke.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off – see, it doesn't bite.

Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

The "underground railroad" should be understood not as a single entity but as an umbrella term for local groups that employed numerous methods to assist fugitives, some public and entirely legal, some flagrant violations of the law.