Quotes About Bravery

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.

You've lost an arm, Alessio! By the mercy of the Emperor, you're lucky not losing your life as well! I haven't lost my arm, brother! It's right over there! I'm still in this! I'm fine!

Courage is the dividing line between weakness and strength of character.

Courage is the gateway in the sense that you must first learn to face down your fears, even as they still appear real to you.

By courage I mean the ability to face down those imaginary fears and reclaim the far more powerful life that you've denied yourself.

True courage is more a matter of intellect than of feeling.

Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them.

Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

Saving someone's life is a wonderful feeling. Try it. You feel like, if you don't mind a TV reference, a big damn hero.

If you're trying to scare me," I said, "it's working." "I can do a great deal more than scare you." Where do they get this stuff? "Um, if I thought all you could do was scare me, you couldn't scare me, if you see what I mean." "We'll see how funny you are in a little while." I was mildly curious about that myself.

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

Hmmm. Let's do this and see what happens. Say out loud, 'I can't stand up or I will have a panic attack,' and then while doing that, slowly stand up").

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. —Charles Bukowski

Among the Rhivi of North Genabackis, there was a saying. A man who stirs awake the serpent is a man without fear. A man without fear has forgotten the rules of life. Silanah heard their songs and prayers. And she watched. Sometimes mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed… reminding.

He is strong enough to stand exposed, revealing all that is vulnerable within him. He is brave enough to invite you ever closer. If you hurt him, he will withdraw, as he must, and that path to him will be thereafter for ever sealed. But he begins with the gift of himself. What the other does with it defines the future of that particular relationship.

Most bravery, dear little one,' he said as he pulled the dog from the water and rested it across the back of his thickly muscled neck, 'is marked by a strength less than imagined, and a hope farther from reach than one expects.

Fighting, for me, is like skydiving without the parachute.

Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

I watched horror films growing up, and I would love watching them with friends. But then, I would spend the next week sleeping in my parents' room because I would be so scared.

Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

I enjoy being slightly scared.