Quotes About Bravery

I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting Forward, brave comrades! you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!

Look down, your grace, said Skimmer. Mhm, mhm. Vimes realized he could feel the faintest prick of a knife blade on his stomach. Look down further, he said. Inigo looked down. He swallowed. Vimes had a knife, too. You really are no gentleman, then, he said. Make a sudden move and neither are you, said Vimes.

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and the wind at eighty miles per hour. That would do it every time.

Mission motto, sir, said Carrot cheerfully. Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it. I imagine he did, said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind? Er... Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. Er... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir.

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Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate

And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. 'What for?' 'Sign of a good berserk, taking all your clothes off. Frightens the hell out of the enemy. If anyone starts laughing, stab 'em one.

Bein' a soldier is not hard. If it was, soldiers would not be able to do it.

He famously defended fairy stories against those who said they told children that there were monsters; children already know that there are monsters, he said, and fairy stories teach them that monsters can be killed. We now know that the monsters may not simply have scales and sleep under a mountain. They may be in our own heads.

He had died for his beliefs; chief among them was the very Hugglestonian one that bravery could replace armour, and that Klatchians would turn and run if you shouted loud enough.

Their eyes said that... they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people.

You beat a dozen armed men single-handed? Oh aye, sir, said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered.

Vimes stuck his helmet under his arm, smoothed back his hair, and knocked. He'd considered asking Sargent Colon to accompany him, but had brushed the idea aside quickly. He couldn't have tolerated the sniggering. Anyway, what was there to be afraid of? He'd stared into the jaws of death three times; four, if you included telling Vetinari to shut up.

Being a witch meant going into places you didn't want to go.

I've seen men die valiantly. There's no future in it.

Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.

Tiffany was not afraid of heights at all.  She could walk past tall trees without batting an eyelid.  Looking up at huge towering mountains didn't bother her a bit. What she was afraid of, although she hadn't realized it up until this point, was depths.

Young Sam looked solemn for a moment and then said, I think I'll let Mr. Whistle do the being scared and then it won't bother me.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf 's tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world.

Did I have the courage to forge a path

Dare to be burned by the heat of our own ambitious hearts.

Laura would never be so easily intimidated. She was braver than he could ever be, brave enough to wave her ugly scars like scarlet flags.