Quotes About Bravery

What you settle for is determined by your fear.

Own your fear, and lean just beyond it. In every aspect of your life. Starting now.

Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

Dost thou question my word, Sir Knight? Madorallen returned in an ominously quiet voice. And wilt thou then come down and put thy doubt to the test? Or is it perhaps that thou wouldst prefer to cringe doglike behind thy parapet and yap at thy betters? Oh, that was very good, Barak said admiringly.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous. Who made up that rule? It's a known fact...

Being afraid was not the sort of thing that endangered life or limb, but it was still an injury of sorts – and sometimes a deeper and more serious kind of injury.

What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll misunderstand, and you'll have to do something to show him that it's not him that you're afraid of.

Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have.

Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have. You'll get used to it. After you've put it on every morning like an old tunic, you won't even notice it anymore. Sometimes laughing at it helps—a little." "Laughing?" "It shows the fear that you know it's there, but that you're going to go ahead and do what you have to do anyway.

There is nothing that a coward hates more than to be reminded of his own weakness.

And a hero isn't someone who doesn't feel fear, they're someone who in spite of their fear does the right thing and really risks their own safety

it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval.

the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.

That it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

That the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.

Here is the truth - actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested. - David Foster Wallace, from The Pale King

Marathe was prepared to die violently at any time, which rendered him free to choose among emotions.

But facing a dragon does not mean swaggering up to it unarmed and insulting its mom.

Perhaps I'm trying to prove my bravery even now, across the gulf of years and mortality that separates us. Or perhaps when I grasp the bones of the dead, I'm somehow trying to grasp him, the one dead man who remains forever elusive.

he began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. "If he'd been here," she said, "those cowards would never have dared to insult me." She thought about "him" with great sadness and perhaps longing--about his honest, stupid, constant kindness and fidelity; his never-ceasing obedience; his good humour; his bravery and courage. Very likely she cried, for she was particularly lively, and had put on a little extra rouge, when she came down to dinner.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship?

Jack or Donald marches away to glory with his knapsack on his shoulder, stepping out briskly to the tune of The Girl I left behind me. It is she who remains and suffers,-- and has the leisure to think, and brood and remember.