Quotes About Bravery

Good news: Four of your students have gone off to find a dragon who just tried to kill you, in order to find another dragon who has tried to kill you about ninety dozen times. Oh excellent, thanks, Turtle. Now we don't have to worry at all.

don't give us the scroll," said Qibli, "and get another face full of flames and frostbreath. Wow, try saying that five times fast.

Well, too bad, she thought defiantly. I'm not letting go now. I'm not ever letting go of her again. If this is it, all our truth spilled over the table, then this is my truth: I choose Willow. Even if she is a SapWing, and not Mandrake. MOM.

trailed after them and Starflight reluctantly brought up the rear. He glanced back once and saw Fatespeaker huddled into her wings, a small drenched shape beside the vast bulk of Morrowseer. He hoped his friends would welcome her as the new NightWing when he was gone. I'm about to die, he thought, and I never got to tell Sunny I love her. I'm going to die without saving the world, without stopping the war … without ever doing one brave thing in my life.

Turn your eyes, your wings, your fire To the land across the sea Where dragons are poisoned and dragons are dying And no one can ever be free. A secret lurks inside their eggs. A secret hides within their book. A secret buried far below May save those brave enough to look. Open your hearts, your minds, your wings To the dragons who flee from the Hive. Face a great evil with talons united Or none of the tribes will survive

This is the part where I die pointlessly. The one who gets sacrificed so the real heroes can get on with saving the day.

Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I'm supposed to kill THAT?

Go ahead," Starflight said. "It's OK. I'll watch them." He shook his wings and puffed out his chest imposingly, which came across a bit like a tree frog trying to look menacing.

Guys, this is Riptide and Serious.

For someone who worried about almost everything, Zoe was unexpectedly not concerned about a dragon setting her on fire.

Tui T. Sutherland

Firing someone is not necessarily a sign of accountability, but is often the last act of cowardice

Ripping the Band-Aid off quickly" is

he stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.

You will not be afraid of all those rough men?' asked Sophie, when Clarissa came down. 'No. As far as I have seen, apart from mere brute strength they are no more formidable than we are. Less so, indeed, since most have that dog-does-not-bite-bitch rule deeply engrained, while nothing of that kind applies to us.

Come athwart my hawse and I shall ride you down, you half-baked son of an Egyptian fart,' to a wool-gathering jolly-boat; and art echoed from either shore.

was an officer holding out his sword

HE WHO DARES NOTHING NEED HOPE FOR NOTHING. BUT HE WHO DARES WINS

Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.

You know what?" he said with great earnestness. "I think we're both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump. Isn't that true?

Youth was not made for pleasure, but for heroism.

La juventud no está hecha para el placer, sino para el heroísmo

Monsters were one thing. She was used to monsters, she could deal with monsters. A noise in the darkness, with nothing attached to it, was another.

Physical courage is the type involved in overcoming the fear of physical injury or death in order to save others or oneself. Moral courage entails maintaining ethical integrity or authenticity at the risk of losing friends, employment, privacy, or prestige. Psychological courage includes that sort required to confront a debilitating illness or destructive habit or situation; it is the bravery inherent in facing one's inner demons.