Quotes About Bravery

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

You bluffed him? A Porphyrian double ton of fire and brimstone, fangs like swords, claws like … like swords! And you just … bluffed him?

If there was a God who cared, could He make her brave? She liked the idea of it all.

You are a coward." Stephen headed for the door. "If you lose her, it won't be because of this citizenship writ or all of the things she has to give up to be your wife. It won't be because you're some magnanimous chap who freed the bird who wanted to fly. It will be because you're afraid." He eased open the door. "And that will mark your reign for the rest of your life.

If she was going to be brave, then be brave.

Funny thing about love, real love—it filled every soul with courage.

Just because you dread doing something doesn't make you a coward. Just because you do something you dread doesn't make you brave. In my case, I wasn't sure what I was.

Indeed, for the first time in her life she almost could see her heart, and to her astonishment it seemed a brave and hopeful thing: a small wooden cup of some golden liquid, brimming until it spilled over all...

If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.

Life had already taught Stephen one thing, and that was that never must human beings be allowed to suspect that a creature fears them. The fear of the one is a spur to the many, for the primitive hunting instinct dies hard -- it is better to face a hostile world than to turn one's back for a moment.

I want life, and yet I'm always afraid.

We're all afraid, Olivia," Henry answered, his voice quiet. "You can't make it through life without it. The trick is figuring out that the thing you need is just on the other side of that fear. The only way you can reach it is by going right through the center of it.

I...should have...risked it." She grasped Alex's hand in both of hers as if she were cupping life-giving water. "Life isn't...meant to be spent...hiding in the corner with your arms huddled over your head, protecting...yourself from anything that might hurt you. Life should be...embraced.

Anytime someone is afraid but plows forward anyway, that's the very definition of courage." "It's hard to tell myself that in the midst of crippling self-doubt." "That's when you should believe it most of all.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you've got.

Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.

I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash.

A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him.

He saw light, dazzling, blinding, and it scared him.

And into its bland merciless face what did he have to show as his proof that he deserved to live? - Nothing but that he was afraid to die.

Be brave, be bold, my dear, but do not be too bold. Do not go looking for trouble. It has a way of finding you on its own, soon enough. -Rose

He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog -- a Christian dog.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Hari Singh Nalwa received four wounds: two from sabres, one from an arrow (which Nalwa pulled out himself), and the fourth from a gunshot. Before dying, he instructed his men not to give out word of his condition.