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Quotes About Bravery

She brushed the tip of his nose with a finger. "Oh my poor baby, are you scared of him?" He rolled away from her onto his back. "A little. Everyone should be at least a little scared of Bremer dan Gorst.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I will ask you once to put the dark-skinned girl down and leave." Crandle snorted. "And if we don't?" That one eye narrowed slightly. "Then, long after we are gone to the goddess, the grandchildren of the grandchildren of those who witness will whisper fearful stories of the way I broke you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
No corpses, no glory.
~ Joe Abercrombie
it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The most heroic deaths of all were the pointless ones,
~ Joe Abercrombie
Everything frightens me, and it's well that it does. Fear is a good friend to the hunted, it's kept me alive this long. The dead are fearless, and I don't care to join them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You are very brave' said the first of the Magi, and his voice was almost painful on her ear 'Or very rash. To cavil with a man who has called up storms and snatched down lightning. Who scattered the mighty Thousand Words like chaff on the wind.' He leaned forwards, baring his teeth, and it was the most she could do to stop herself cringing, stumbling back, dropping to her knees. 'Why, you must know, that with a thought I could make ash of you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A merész önfeláldozással az a gond, hogy merészségre van hozzá szükség és önfeláldozásra.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He glanced at the mayhem beyond the walls. "The time has come for someone to nobly sacrifice themselves. In the absence of anyone better qualified… it will have to be me.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Some things have to be done. It's better to do them than to live with the fear of them. That's what my father used to tell me.
~ Joe Abercrombie
As with so many things in life, heroic last stands are a great deal more appealing in concept than in reality.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The Northman chuckled. 'Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Hard words are for fools and cowards. Stour might be both, but you're neither.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Los necios se jactan de lo que harán. Los héroes lo hacen.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But some things have to be done. Better to do 'em, than to live with the fear of 'em.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You can only conquer your fears by facing them. Hide from them, and they conquer you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Vurms stopped in his tracks. "You wouldn't dare!" Glokta smiled. His most revolting, leering, gap-toothed smile. "You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you?
~ Joe Abercrombie
He'd never been one for war cries. Why tell your enemy where you are? They'll learn soon enough. Surprise, that's the key. Whether you're fighting one man or a thousand or ten thousand. The more you're fighting, the more important it becomes, 'cause shock spreads faster'n plague, faster'n fire, and turns the bravest into cowards. So he rushed up silent as winter, silent as sickness.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Strange thing, that–the fewer years you have to lose the more you fear the losing of 'em. Maybe a man just gets a stock of courage when he's born, and wears it down with each scrape he gets into.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A veces lo mejor que puede hacerse con el peligro es correr hacia él
~ Joe Abercrombie
and you have to have fear to have courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Better to do it than live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Better to do it,' Logen whispered under his breath, 'than live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie