Quotes About Courage

Face your fears, Halt had always taught him, and more often than not they will fade like mist in the sunshine.

His method of making his way through the crowd was a simple one. He deviated neither to left nor right, but forged straight ahead, using his broad shoulders to clear a path. A pace behind him, his beautiful wife, Lady Sandra, followed in the space he cleared.

There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.

He'd just walked into a lion's den, found the head lion and tweaked his tail. And now he sat opposite, cool as a cucumber.

Ze zagen eruit alsof ze door hellehonden op de hielen werden gezeten.' Ze zweeg even en haalde haar schouders op. 'Wat eigenlijk ook wel zo was,' voegde ze eraan toe.

John Flanagan

If you believe that," he said grimly, "then you have never seen Skandians fight, my friend.

Hoe bang je ook bent - en je zult bang zijn - en hoe angstaanjagend ze er met hun doodshoofden en hun zwart-omrande ogen ook uitzien, blijf staan. Val aan. Ga altijd naar voren. Schreeuw tegen ze, laat je woede spreken, maar val vooral aan. Dat verwachten ze nooit. Ze verwachten dat je van angst begint te gillen en op de vlucht slaat. Doe dat niet. Ga vooruit. Altijd vooruit. - Lydia

jump off the cliff, it'll be less messier that way

But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony

De tol?' vroeg Arnaut. 'Ja, dat is een bijzondere vorm van struikroverij,' legde Halt uit.

John Flanagan

Ik ben op zoek naar een stel sterke kerels die van een potje vechten houden. Ik wil namelijk een kasteel plunderen, en ik heb begrepen dat jullie daar best goed in zijn. - Will, tegen de Skandiërs

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands...

Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree. "You have no sense of drama or symbolism, do you?" he asked. "Huh?" replied Horace, not quite understanding. Halt looked around for a convenient tree. Luckily for Horace, there were none in sight.

Let's meet, and either do or die.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Mr. Latimer to say: "Be of good cheer, Ridley; and play the man. We shall this day, by God's grace, light up such a candle in England, as I trust, will never be put out.

Parsons pulled the straw near to him, and then said to the spectators, "This is God's armor, and now I am a Christian soldier prepared for battle: I look for no mercy but through the merits of Christ;

Germanicus, a young man, but a true christian, being delivered to the wild beasts on account of his faith, behaved with such astonishing courage, that several pagans became converts to a faith which inspired such fortitude.

William Tyndale, and Miles Coverdale, both voluntary exiles from their country for their aversion to popish superstition and idolatry.

I fear neither death nor fire, being prepared for both.

Oh, ye papists, behold! ye look for miracles; here now may you see a miracle; for in this fire I feel no more pain than if I were in bed; for it is as sweet to me as a bed of roses." Thus he resigned his soul into the hands of his Redeemer.