Quotes About Courage

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than to live with the fear of it.

No soy un guerrero. —Sí que lo eres. —Un guerrero no se asusta. —Un necio no se asusta. Un guerrero resiste a pesar del miedo, y tú has resistido.

She brushed the tip of his nose with a finger. "Oh my poor baby, are you scared of him?" He rolled away from her onto his back. "A little. Everyone should be at least a little scared of Bremer dan Gorst.

The worst?" Dogman stared at him. "You sure? What about if Bethod does come, and his Carls kick your wall over like a pile o' turds and kill every last one of us?" Crummock's brow furrowed. He frowned down at the ground. He squinted up at the clouds. "True," he said, breaking out in a smile. "That is worse. You got a fast mind, lad.

The Fates knew, she could have used some comfort. But some people need to be held up. Which means some people need to do the holding.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past.

it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.

The most heroic deaths of all were the pointless ones,

Everything frightens me, and it's well that it does. Fear is a good friend to the hunted, it's kept me alive this long. The dead are fearless, and I don't care to join them.

Silence is a warrior's best armour, the saying goes. Hard looks and hard words have never won a battle yet, but they've lost a few.

No armour.' Yon was helping Brack into his mail, shaking his head as he frowned over at Whirrun. 'What kind of a bloody hero don't wear bloody armour?' 'Armour …' mused Whirrun, licking a finger and scrubbing some speck of dirt from the pommel of his sword, 'is part of a state of mind … in which you admit the possibility … of being hit.

Oh yes, you understand better than most how this will work. Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.

Self-pity was for children and half-wits.

A merész önfeláldozással az a gond, hogy merészségre van hozzá szükség és önfeláldozásra.

A shifting sea of jabbing weapons, squealing shields, shining metal, bone shattered, blood splattered, furious, terrified faces washing all round him, squirming and wriggling, and he hacked and chopped and split them like a mad butcher going at a carcass.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.

Some things have to be done. It's better to do them than to live with the fear of them. That's what my father used to tell me.

As with so many things in life, heroic last stands are a great deal more appealing in concept than in reality.

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

The Northman chuckled. 'Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Stour might be both, but you're neither.

But there comes a time you have to say no to what you're given and reach for what you want.

Don't "but" me, Glokta!' hissed Sult. 'Don't you dare "but" me, not today! You're not half as crippled as you could be! Not half as crippled, you understand?

Los necios se jactan de lo que harán. Los héroes lo hacen.