Quotes About Bravery

Dying a dozen times in mock battle is nothing. When it's for real you die but once.

Gesler kicked one of the severed heads across the deck. Its uneven thumping was loud in the still air. 'Who still wants to live for ever?" he growled, then spat.

When suffering awaits, it takes great courage to stride forward, to enter this unrelenting, unforgiving realm.

This is the last day of the Khundryl Burned Tears. My children, do you ride with me? I know you do. My children, be brave this day. See your father, and know that he is proud of you all.

What gesture will you make, to announce to all the true colour of your soul? How long will we all wait for you to find your courage?

the boy walks another soldier, another one bright heart not yet cooled to hard iron

And, hovering inches from her throat, was the tip of the warrior's flint sword.

It's what being a soldier is all about. That is what I have seen since we found them. You do not choose your family, and sometimes there's trouble in that family, but you don't choose.' 'But they did. They chose to be soldiers.' 'And then they come face to face with death, Saddic. That is the blood tie, and it makes a knot not even dying can cut.

First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners

One of the quips Reagan scribbled on a notepad after waking up after surgery was Winston Churchill's famous line from his autobiography My Early Life that "there is no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at without result.

He knows the sniper will fire again, but he isn't afraid. At this moment fear doesn't exist. There's no such thing as bravery. There are no heroes, no villains, no cowards. There's what he can do, and what he can't. There's right and wrong and nothing else. The world is binary. Shading will come later.

He's been asleep since the war began. He knows this now. In defending himself from death he lost his grip on life. He thinks of Emina, risking her life to deliver expired pills to someone she's never met. Of the young man who ran into the street to save her when she was shot. Of the cellist who plays for those killed in a mortar attack. He could run now, but he doesn't.

We are all glass soldiers.

I thought, Or maybe drowning wasn't as scary as what they had to face every day.

Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay.

I wish I felt brave." "Do you know how a brave person feels?" "How?" "Scared.

Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.

A man dies only once. The dread of death causes far more misery than the thing itself, and I shall not submit to it. It's only a short walk from here to the house of Lucius, and an even shorter walk from there to my house. I shall be perfectly safe.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.