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Quotes About Courage

I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along with me for the sport of it. He sent back a message. All it said was 'Humph!
~ Lloyd Alexander
Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.
~ Lloyd Alexander
From a swift canter the powerful legs of Melynlas stretched to a gallop. The stallion's muscles heaved beneath him and Taran, sword raised, plunged into the sea of men. His head spun and he gasped as if drowning. He realized he was terrified.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man. Now he is dead. I saved the signal to use in a worthy cause, and when I found one it was wasted." "Wasted?" answered Fflewddur. "I think not. Since you did your best and didn't begrudge using it, I shouldn't call it wasted at all.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Det är inte många, fortsatte han högmodigt, som förstår hur makt ska brukas. Och inte många som vågar bruka den när de blir erbjudna den.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Därför ska jag ära Morgant, sade Gwydion, för vad han en gång var, och Ellidyr, prins av Pen-Llarcau, för vad han blev.
~ Lloyd Alexander
I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
~ Lloyd Alexander
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
~ Lois Lowry
Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
~ Lois Lowry
And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
~ Lois Lowry
it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
~ Lois Lowry
Take pride in your pain, her mother had always told her. You are stronger than those who have none.
~ Lois Lowry
It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.
~ Lois Lowry
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.
~ Lois Lowry
Go, he said. This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.
~ Lois Lowry
That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.
~ Lois Lowry
You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.
~ Lois Lowry
It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating what you're leaving.
~ Lois Lowry
It is much easier to be brave if you don't know everything.
~ Lois Lowry
The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.
~ Lois Lowry
You suggested, Jonas, that perhaps she wasn't brave enough? I don't know about bravery: what it is, what it means. I do know that I sat here numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them that she would prefer to inject herself.
~ Lois Lowry
Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.
~ Lois Lowry
Annemarie admitted to herself, snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage.
~ Lois Lowry