Quotes About Bravery

The goddess tells the lonely sailor not to be afraid, that it is better to be brave in all things

people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

They said it's for boys. Or very adventurous girls." She can hear him smiling.

Membership in the State Youth becomes mandatory. The boys in Werner's Kameradschaften are taught parade maneuvers and quizzed on fitness standards and required to run sixty meters in twelve seconds. Everything is glory and country and competition and sacrifice. Live faithfully, the boys sing as they troop past the edges of the colony. Fight bravely and die laughing.

We are a volley of bullets, sing the newest cadets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.

Dentro de su pecho late algo enorme, algo lleno deseo, algo que ya no siente temor.

An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges, the overflow finally giving way - he could not longer suffer his own cowardice.

trying and failing to summon the courage to go out.

every timidity eventually turns into regret.

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

For him, bravery was not an assertion of collective defiance and solidarity among colleagues but a solitary, obstinate act of will.

He slept there that night, without any of his guards.

it must sail away as soon as possible, even if doing so meant risking battle with Sextus.

He wanted writers like Titus Livius (in English, Livy) to speak their minds on this subject without fear or favor.

Of the three legions' fifteen thousand men, few survived to tell the tale.

This found its classic expression in Homer's Iliad, in which Glaucus says to Diomedes that he still hears his father's urgings ringing in his ears: Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head high above the others.

Give him his due: this is a man who has always faced his fears square on, whether they be a deadly swamp adder, a hideous poison that might drive you to insanity or a hell-hound set loose on the moors. Holmes has done many things that are, frankly, baffling – but he has never run away.

Alex felt the bullets pass over his shoulder and heard a scream as one of the other guards was hit. Well, that made one less anyway!

Try to Kill the Children!

He had discovered the secret of war, the moment when soldiers cast aside their fear and become part of a machine that is so much bigger than themselves. For only then are they prepared to die.

Just remember,Alex Rider,you're never too young to die.