Quotes About Courage

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest demands on your courage: the panic of acknowledging it; the terror of declaring it; the fear of being rebuffed? Why had no one told her that love's twin was not hate but cowardice?

Grom-gil-Gorm," she said softly as she rode between Laithlin and Yarvi. "Breaker of Swords." Mother Isriun's horse shied back out of her way. "Maker of Orphans." Thorn reined in beside him, his frowning face lit red by the blazing light of her elf-bangle, and she leaned from her saddle to whisper. "Your death comes.

Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.

Joe Abercrombie

Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.

War is no place for good men.

A coward's just a man with the proper respect for sharp metal,

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want. So Logen said nothing. Calder could take that for weakness if he pleased, and so much the better. Fights might find Logen depressingly often, but he was long, long past looking for them.

That was an age of great men doing what was right...This is an age of little men doing what they must.

Never took an easy path if he thought it was the wrong one. Never stepped back from a fight if he thought it had to be done.

We'll see. Thanks for drawing your sword for me. I always had you down as a man to back the favourite.' 'So did I. But for a moment up there you reminded me of your father.' Pale-as-Snow planted his own boot on the wall beside Calder's. 'I remembered how it felt to follow a man I admire.' Calder snorted. 'I wouldn't get used to that feeling.' 'Don't worry, it's gone already.

You must make of your quim a stone.

He felt a strange urge, right then, just to put his head down and walk past, off into the night and never look back. Then he wouldn't have to be the Bloody-Nine again... He could've gone far away, and started new, and been whoever he wanted. But he'd tried that once already, and it had done him no good. The past was always right behind him, breathing on his neck. It was time to turn around and face it.

If you judge your thoughts worth hearing, pronounce them proudly, push them to every corner of the chamber, fill the hall with your hopes and desires and make every listener share them! If you are ashamed of your thoughts, better to leave a silence.

That was the age of great men, doing what was right.

A name to fill strong men with fear or courage, depending on which side they stand.

But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

Surprise makes brave men cowards, strong men weak, wise men fools.

A battle is no place for a self-respecting warrior, but if you must attend one at least have the good taste to be where the fighting isn't.

A sword has a voice.

Armour is part of a state of mind in which you admit the possibility of being hit

When you have a load to lift, you're better lifting than weeping.