Quotes About Courage

Life was full of risks. Avoiding them might be comfortable, but was it really living?

I feel stupid when people say 'You? You are so brave,' because I don't feel brave, I don't even know what brave is.

Maybe I'm no longer a dog, but I can still bite!

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

And for a brief moment I envisioned myself snarling Yes, ha ha! And I minced fifty more like him, so you'd better run!

He knocked me off my horse. But I'd taken an oath, so I had to do my best." I drew in a shaky breath. "I know I can't fight forty of you, but I'm going to stand here and block you until you either go away or my arms fall off, because this, too, is an oath I took.

Brace up. We're not about to embark on a duel to the death over the dishes.

You, there, girl! Halt!" Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to? Of course I took off in the opposite direction, as fast as I could.

I just wanted to see if you traitors would dare to face me," Galdran said, his caustic voice making me feel sick inside. Sick--and angry. The Marquis bowed low over his horse's withers, every line of his body indicative of irony. Galdran's face flushed dark purple. "I confess," Shevraeth drawled, "we had a small wager on whether you would have the courage to face us.

In my mind I saw, clearly, that straight-backed figure on the dapple-gray horse, his long black cloak slung back over the animal's haunches, his plumed helm of command on his head. With either phenomenal courage or outright arrogance he had ignored the possibility of our arrows, the crowned sun stitched on his tunic gleaming in the noonday light as he directed the day's battle.

Instead my inner eye kept returning to the memory of our people running before a mass of orderly brown-and-green-clad soldiers, overseen by a straight figure in a black cloak riding back and forth along a high ridge.

Bad thing about fighters, though, too often they were forged in fire.

It isn't over until you're no longer breathing. Fight like you will win.

Shirlee McCoy

As I stand there in the immaculate evening I do not find it strange to be fighting an entire town, a whole county. I am alone, yes, of course I am, but I am not particularly afraid. The house was empty and lonely before—I just did not realize it—it's no worse now. I know that I shall hurt as much as I have been hurt. I shall destroy as much as I have lost.

He thought most men would hardly dare to touch her, or only with anger, because she would not pretend anything was casual.

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Where did he go, your father?' 'Africa.' 'What for?' 'To shoot lions, of course.' 'What on Earth for ?' said Mrs. Willow blankly. 'Some people shoot lions,' the girl said pleasantly, 'and some people do not shoot lions. My father is one of the people who do.

Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radiant colours.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your little cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

We never know where our courage is coming from.

Insist on your cup of stars.