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Quotes About Bravery

I'm not afraid of heights, just widths.
~ Steven Wright
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well I'm not a good terrified person.
~ Stevie Nicks
I was with my girlfriend, and we saw eight big guys pushing an old lady around. My girlfriend says, "Do something about it." So I went up to them and asked, "Is that any way to treat an elderly lady?" They said, "It's one way." So I thought, "That's reasonable."
~ Stevie Ray Fromstein
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.
~ Stieg Larsson
She had that rare quality: the courage to show love
~ Stig Dagerman
Det är nutidsmänniskans tragik att hon har upphört att våga vara rädd. Det är ödesdigert för därmed följer att hon också successivt tvingas sluta med att tänka.
~ Stig Dagerman
Only he who is not at home in the land of little dogs will be left to become a big dog. And the only advantage of being a big dog in a world of little dogs is that you are no longer afraid to die. But a big dog - least of all a big dog - cannot escape the shame of living either. This is why I'm doing what I'm doing.
~ Stig Dagerman
Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run
~ Sting
To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
~ Stirling Moss
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
~ Stockwell Day
The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.
~ Stokely Carmichael
You had to face the fear to be worthy of acceptance.
~ Storm Constantine
I listened to them being bravely humorous, overtaken by a sense of distance from them, sheer unreality.
~ Storm Constantine
Her daughter was not related in blood to Ellony Leckery, yet it seemed as if she'd somehow managed to inherit her namesake's rather fey nature. Pharinet, Valraven's sister, insisted young Ellony was far stronger, braver, and more robust than the original, but there was no doubt she was highly sensitive, and sometimes this affected her badly.
~ Storm Constantine
His own madness was the last thing he feared.
~ Storm Constantine
In a way, he wanted to run, so that no-one would know that Owen was waiting there for him. Another, braver part of him welcomed the moment of surprise when this fact became obvious.
~ Storm Constantine
There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.
~ Storm Constantine
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is acting in spite of fear.
~ Stuart Avery Gold
Thirrin's fighting spirit still roared within her though, and as the creature lowered its jaws towards her throat she punched it hard on the nose. The werewolf shook its head and sneezed, taken completely aback.
~ Stuart Hill
I can assure you that frostbite to any part of that animal's anatomy wouldn't delay us for a second. If she was unfit to travel I'd personally poleaxe her," Thirrin said with venom. Then she added as an afterthought, "And I'd enjoy it!
~ Stuart Hill
When I get kind of low, I'd think about a verse I learned at one time, when everybody was fighting me. It went something like this: He has no enemies, you say, My friend, the boast is poor. He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have foes. If he has none, Small is the work he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip, Has cast no cup from perjured lip, Has never turned the wrong to right, He's been a coward in the fight.
~ Studs Terkel
Give me blood and I will give you freedom
~ Subhash Chandra Bose
The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable you see what you're made of and who you are.
~ Sue Bird
Release Lady Mirabelle and the kitten or I'll run you through, skewering your belly, pinching out your life.
~ Sue-Ellen Welfonder