Quotes About Bravery

But if you have doubts, why don't you go stand over there. I'll shoot you and we'll find out if it hurts.

He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. "Alright, Jeremy!" I yelled into the night. "Give me the salamander and I won't cut your head off!" Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking.

I told him I was about to do something idiotic and dangerous, and he told me to go ahead and let him know if he could help in any way." "I don't understand your relationship." "You don't have to.

Take my hand and bring your sword. The universe is waiting.

Killing another human being is the hardest thing you will ever do. But to fight in this war, your kills must be instantaneous. Any hesitation gives your enemy an opening to end you. You die, they win. Acknowledge to yourself that you hesitate. Don't engage unless you must. Remember your job. You must live through this.

A line from my favorite book came to mind. Have fun storming the castle, Hugh.

Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.

A samurai was essentially a man of action.

It is a brave act of valor to contemn death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live

Tranquillity is courage in repose.

Sophie had been chiefly concerned in those days whether her mother would be able to bear the ordeal of losing two children at the same moment. But now, as Mother stood there, so brave and good, Sophie had a feeling of sudden release from anxiety. Again her mother spoke; she wanted to give her daughter something she might hold fast to: You know, Sophie - Jesus. Earnestly, firmly, almost imperiously, Sophie replied, Yes, but you too. Then she left - free, fearless, and calm.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ? William Faulkner

30 June 1941. Stress the Michauds. People who always pay the price and the only ones who are truly noble. Odd that the majority of the masses, the detestable masses, are made up of these courageous types. The majority doesn't get better because of them nor do they [the courageous types] get worse.

The incessant noise of gunfire filled him with anxiety and excitement; he started trembling all over, shaking his head from side to side like a frightened horse. But he wasn't afraid. Not at all! He wasn't afraid! He welcomed, he embraced, the idea of death. It would be a beautiful death for this lost cause. It would be better than crouching in trenches as they did in '14. Now they fought in the open air, beneath the beautiful June sun or in the brilliant moonlight

A less courageous person would have felt that it was too late, they would have felt ashamed, they would think wellI don't want this, I know I shall hate it, it's all wrong, but I'm so involved now I'll have to put up with it, and I know that later on I'll keep on wishing that I'd had the nerve to say no, even at the last minute....

So. The door was open into the dark and he had but to walk through it.

Over the bed hung the picture of her beloved, the Polish Rider. He was looking, with his authoritative pensive mouth and his calm wide-apart eyes, past Moy, over her left shoulder and away into some vast distance. He was a knight upon a quest. He was brave, innocent, chaste, good.

People who act on their moral courage will always encounter disapproval. To have moral courage is to challenge conformity within our own tribes--be they religious, cultural, ideological or professional--and to do so for a more universal good.

I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them

Nikada ne možete biti sigurni u nešto sve vreme. Možete imati samo odvažnosti i snage da u?inite ono što mislite da je pravo. Možda ?e se to kasnije pokazati kao neta?no, ali vi ste ga bar u?inili, a to je ono što je važno.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

But he no longer feared the fear! It was not something to run from, that fear, but something to fight.

If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly.

You see, I have cowardly feelings, but I try not to make cowardly decisions.