Quotes About Bravery

When faced with Death, people lose control of their bodily functions—particularly the majority of those men who are known to be brave-hearted. For this reason, the corpse-strewn battlefields that you've depicted thousands of times reek not of blood, gunpowder and heated armor as is assumed, but of shit and rotting flesh.

After becoming engaged to my grandfather, and before marrying him, she did something rather brave in Istanbul in 1917—she went out with him to a restaurant.

solo se arrepentía porque tuviera miedo, sino también

U ovoj zemlji jedino kukavice opstaju. Ali svaka kukavica ?itav život sanjari kako ?e se jednoga dana preobraziti u junaka, nije li tako?

Hegel je bio taj koji je prvi primijetio da su povijest i kazalište satkani od iste materije, rekao je Sunaj. Podsjetio je da - jednako kao i kazalište i povijest dodjeljuje uloge. I kao što na kazališne daske mogu istr?ati samo oni najhrabriji, i na pozornicu povijesti izlaze samo odabrani...

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are and go ahead and LEAD. -Petra

They're so brave, she said. They're all dead. Only a coward would think of that, she said scornfully.

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

When your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy. Changed, if he comes back at all.

Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job. Not proud, sir, said Runnel. But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place.

we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane. They

Insouciant heroes aren't brave or relaxed. They're just trying not to embarrass themselves in the moments before they die. She

Insouciant heroes aren't Brave or relaxed. They're just trying not to embarrass themselves in the moments before they die.

The snake began to unweave itself from the rug again, only this time Ender did not hesitate. He stepped on the head of the snake and crushed it under his foot. It writhed and twisted under him, and in response he twisted and ground it deeper into the stone floor. Finally it was still. Ender picked it up and shook it, until it unwove itself and the pattern in the rug was gone. Then, still dragging the snake behind him, he began to look for a way out.

And yet they obey and will continue to obey the orders that come to them. As in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade, these soldiers give up their lives, trusting that their commanders are using them well. While we sit safely here in these simulator rooms, playing an elaborate computer game, they are obeying, dying so that all of humankind can live.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

To see what's right and not do it is cowardice.