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Quotes About Courage

But some things have to be done. Better to do 'em, than to live with the fear of 'em.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You can only conquer your fears by facing them. Hide from them, and they conquer you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Vurms stopped in his tracks. "You wouldn't dare!" Glokta smiled. His most revolting, leering, gap-toothed smile. "You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Si te toca levantar una carga, más te vale levantarla que echarte a llorar
~ Joe Abercrombie
There used to be," she muttered, "but they whip it out of you. They whip you until they're sure there's nothing left." Yulwei stood there, with that pitying look on his face. Strange, how it didn't make her angry any more.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Listen to what you're told. Learn from those who know better. Be brave, by all means, but don't be rash. Above all, don't get yourself bloody killed!
~ Joe Abercrombie
Strange thing, that–the fewer years you have to lose the more you fear the losing of 'em. Maybe a man just gets a stock of courage when he's born, and wears it down with each scrape he gets into.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Hand of iron! Head of iron! Heart of iron!" And he lashed blindly with his sword over the shield wall. "Your death comes, sang the hundred!
~ Joe Abercrombie
A veces lo mejor que puede hacerse con el peligro es correr hacia él
~ Joe Abercrombie
and you have to have fear to have courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Better to do it than live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Better to do it,' Logen whispered under his breath, 'than live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up!
~ Joe Abercrombie
Fear is like cold water. A little is a fine thing, if fixes you on what counts. But too much will freeze you.
~ Joe Abercrombie
El valor puede obtenerse de muchos lugares y estar compuesto de muchos elementos diversos, de tal modo que en un momento determinado es posible que el cobarde de ayer se convierta en el héroe de mañana.
~ Joe Abercrombie
My friend,' said the nobleman, 'you're a bloody hero!' Lamb looked at him sideways as he raised the bottle. 'I'm bloody, all right.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Desperation bakes heroes from the most rotten flour,
~ Joe Abercrombie
First, always do your best to look the coward, the weakling, the fool, 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.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He picked up his dress sword, but after a minute
~ Joe Abercrombie
Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He
~ Joe Abercrombie
but it's better to do it—' 'Than to live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She found she had a great deal less courage altogether than she had smugly supposed while blackmailing investors, or choosing a wig, or pronouncing social death sentences in the salons of Adua. She had always reckoned herself such a gambler. No more audacious woman in the Union. Now she realised the games had always been rigged in her favour. She never had to gamble with her life before, and the stakes had risen suddenly far too high for her taste.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What did I do?" She turned and looked at him, standing there, wet hair dripping round his face. "What did I do, back there?" "You got us through." "I meant-" "You got us through. That's all.
~ Joe Abercrombie