Quotes About Bravery

Tendai remembered his last birthday. It seemed one shouldn't make wishes idly. Who knew which spirits were listening. He considered a moment and then thought, I wish for courage. Because with courage, you weren't afraid to look at the truth. You weren't afraid to ask questions or do the right thing.

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.

All we have to do is keep on denying how frightened we actually are. And then, bit by bit, we will have arrived at the place we most fear, the thing from which we have been averting our eyes. No additional effort required.

He snorted. "He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero." None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.

She didn't mean anything, Kasia said, brave brave brave, the way I hadn't been for her.

I'm not going to play it safe if you say yes, and I'm not going to do anything dumb if you say no." "What you mean is, you'll do an enormous number of truly stupid things no matter what!

Once down by the shore, only Temeraire went directly into the deep water and began to swim. Maximus came tentatively into the shallows, but went no further than he could stand, and Lily stood on the shore watching, nosing at the water but not going in. Levitas, as was his habit, first wavered on the shore, and then dashed out all at once, splashing and flapping wildly with his eyes tightly shut until he got out to the deeper water and began to paddle enthusiastically.

My girl, my brave girl had done this. She had gone and come back bloody and she had brought us back the spring. And she had come back, she had come back, which was worth all the spring and more for me.

even though dignity matters fuck-all when the monsters under your bed are real.

We leave tonight, he continued, very cold and calm, and we take the eggs with us.

It made me angry, because being angry was better than being afraid.

Feiglings!" Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons.

they will not be so foolish." "Men can be very foolish indeed," Laurence said, "and I must, I do, beg you not to enter into a resolution, which should prevent my being able to face death with equanimity. You should make me a coward, if I must fear that my death should turn you against my country." "But I do not at all want you to face death with equanimity

they were wild-eyed and terrified even in their courage.

him every word of praise he has earned from you and never received; you will tell him he has been brave, and loyal, and a better partner than you have deserved.

And I was so tired of being afraid all the time. It felt like I had been afraid and afraid without stopping forever.

I am not whimpering, at all," Temeraire muttered, and added, "ow!" There

De Draak keerde zich weer naar me om. 'Je bent er dus in geslaagd manschappen hierheen te halen,' merkte hij sarcastisch op.

It was the first responders who put their bodies in harm's way for the safety of my colleagues and acquaintances. But when it came to it, when it came to protecting the bodies of first responders from coercion and harm, the "Zoom class" failed utterly to reciprocate with courage of their own. To say the least, in this time of testing, we have not all been equally brave.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind

FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

One or more of the basic fears.

Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.