Quotes About Bravery

Take not counsel of your fears. We need to move!

If I get killed, put my boots back on me.

When I told my father I wasn't going to be a minister of any kind, he said that I should never take cover in life, that I should stand out in the wind. Feel it. I'm trying to do that.

I'll have a rose in my teeth," he said. "And a gold badge.

John Sandford

You threw him into space?" "Yup." "And he didn't die?" "We only threw him out a little bit." Marce

Ensign Davis thought, Screw this, I want to live, and swerved to avoid the land worms. But then he tripped and one of the land worms ate his face and he died anyway.

She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.

And so, for coolness under pressure, for giving the rest of the away team the time it needed to get Ion safely back to the helicopter, and for having the absolute nerve to ignore Riddu Tagaq, I am proud and happy to award Jamie Gray the Ancient and Sacred Order of Holy Shit Jamie Just Shot That Parasite Straight in the Mouth with a Canister Launcher.

If he dies during the jump, I would suggest it would be politic for you to follow him," Abumwe said.

I do have a sense of adventure," I said. "It's overawed by my sense of self-preservation.

Fear enters the room and sits down in a chair and with a polite smile asks to open negotiations.

I mean, I don't know that I was actually planning to possibly die tonight in order to protect a kaiju, Kahurangi said. But I might be willing to possibly die to save a kaiju and ten thousand Canadians. Now we know what motivates you, I said. Ten thousand Canadians.

Alex Roentgen twisted again, faced the ground that would kill him, and screamed the scream of the abandoned.

Marquis de Lafayette

No you don't understand. I've been afraid my whole life. So Sorry, but may I ask of what? Of the future...of my path..I've..I've been afraid of so many things. Perhaps..Perhaps your days of being afraid are done.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.

It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Why do you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.