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Quotes About Bravery

I'm a fucking coward." "Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You don't have to be ready. You just have to go.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The smell of it. The feel of it." He rubbed one hand up and down the stained sheath of his sword, making a faint swishing sound. "War is honest. There's no lying to it. You don't have to say sorry here. Don't have to hide. You cannot. If you die? So what? You die among friends. Among worthy foes. You die looking the Great Leveller in the eye. If you live? Well, lad that's living, isn't it? A man isn't truly alive until he's facing death." Whirrun stamped his foot into the sod. "I love war!
~ Joe Abercrombie
Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Got to have fear to have courage,
~ Joe Abercrombie
Different men have different ways, Logen had told him once, and you have to have fear to have courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You have to have fear to have courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Madmen and fools feel no fear. Heroes fear and face the danger anyway.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Facing an enemy on the battlefield took courage, but you had your friends beside you. Standing alone against your friends, that was a different kind of courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Of all things, men most love to watch ohers face Death. It reminds them they yet live.
~ Joe Abercrombie
People fly despite knowing that a certain percentage of airplanes crash every year.
~ Ann Napolitano
I know it sounds silly, but I'm proud of myself. I guess for living a brave life.
~ Ann Napolitano
She was all of herself with him and even felt there was room for her to become more. When he rested his eyes on her, it was without judgment or expectation, and in that space, Sylvie felt her potential: for bravery, brilliance, kindness, joy. All of these sails rested on the deck of her ship; they were hers, but she hadn't seen them before.
~ Ann Napolitano
Women are as brave as any man. They save their own without a second thought. But that's love isn't it? Loyalty. Women never give up, not when it's someone they love. Many a child wouldn't be here if they did.
~ Ann Perry
No existence is more contemptible than that, which is embittered by fear.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Sometimes it take courage to leave.
~ Ann Rinaldi
A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.
~ Ann Rinaldi
I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.
~ Ann Rinaldi
I wasn't frightened. I was just afraid." Her aunt smiled. "Is there a difference?" "Oh yes," Eleanor said. "When you're frightened you run away. When you're afraid you keep on doing what you're supposed to do.
~ Ann Weil
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I'd rather you came out with your filthy, unfitting language for the rest of your life than for you to turn out one of them cowardly people who can't speak their minds but won't hold their peace and instead mumble behind hands and get their fights out in sneakery and in whispers.
~ Anna Burns
Then she'd stared at him with those radiant blue eyes and asked him to let her go. And bugger, bugger, bigger, he'd suddenly imagined he was sodding Sir Galahad.
~ Anna Campbell