Quotes About Bravery

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

Not likely!" Howl yelled. "I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I'm not doing it!

I'll show you how, Peter said. Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely!" Howl yelled. "I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frighteningly is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

They knew that if, as a child, you do pluck up the courage to hit a bully, it is an act of true heroism--as great as that of Beowulf in his old age.

One of the most remarkable things about Antonina was her determination to include play, animals, wonder, curiosity, marvel, and a wide blaze of innocence in a household where all dodged the ambient dangers, horrors, and uncertainties. That takes a special stripe of bravery rarely valued in wartime. While

For if I won't leap up and ride, who will? And, if no one will ride, when at last the spangly caravan is over, silence rules, and we are left staring across an empty street into the blank of each other's eyes, who will tell about the drums and the cartwheels of light? Who will say what marvel it was swept by?

Strolling through Bia?owieza's mass of life, one would never guess the role it played in Lutz Heck's ambitions, the Warsaw Zoo's fate, and the altruistic opportunism of Jan and Antonina, who capitalized on the Nazis' obsession with prehistoric animals and a forest primeval to rescue scores of endangered neighbors and friends.

Irena Sendler (code name Jolanta) described it. A Christian doctor's daughter with many Jewish friends, she reconfigured her job at the Social Welfare Department, recruited ten like-minded others, and began issuing false documents with forged signatures.

Yet 70,000–90,000 people in Warsaw and the suburbs, or about one-twelfth of the city's population, risked their lives to help neighbors escape. Besides the rescuers and Underground helpers, there were maids, postmen, milkmen, and many others who didn't inquire about extra faces or extra mouths to feed.

Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.

her fear of action was overtaken by her fear of inaction.

You can't live when you're afraid of daying.

Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important.

You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.

We have learned not to be afraid of the dark but we've forgotten that darkness means death.

God is guts" — a pre-Hemingway and pre-Hammett apothegm of toughness — is from the hobo ballad "The Little Red God

Machines are braver than art.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren't criticized are those who don't take risks.

Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary.

Fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don't give in to fear.