Quotes About Courage

Jim wasn't just a badass. He was a badass who wrote a book for badasses on how to be a badder badass.

How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?

How do we get out of this circle? I asked him. We kill him, he said. Good. Let's kill him and go home. I thought you'd never ask.

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

I can't wait to see a pack of bunnycats take down a wild hog with those short tiny legs. Wouldn't the boar be surprised?

Is it going to hurt? You bet. Sergeant Major had a lousy bedside manner.

When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]

True strength isn't in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it's in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

Me Kate. You Tarzan?" "No." Curran bared his teeth at me. "In the first book, he grabs a lion by the tail and pulls it. Never gonna happen. First, an adult male lion weights five hundred pounds. Second, you grab my tail, I'll turn around and take your face off.

That's all right, she told him. I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine. Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism.

I waited. The moment you start speaking, you become less scary, and I had no intention of being less scary.

Fortune favors the brave," I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself.

Bring your army, little god! My sword is hungry!

Sometimes it helps to live through it," I told her. "Find a time when nobody will bother you, and imagine it. Imagine the worst-case scenario in as much detail as you can manage. Let yourself live through it; feel the fear, feel the pain. It's a terrible thing to put yourself through, but once it's done, the anxiety goes away. It never disappears completely, but it leaves you alone enough so you can function.

Kate Daniels, deadly swordswoman and rescuer of hungry orphans. Come in. Wash your hands.

What are you going to wear?" "My badass face." "Good choice," he said.

He who is feared by my enemy is my shield.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

People want to see me as a posh square, so I'll play an East End drag queen or a young man with a cleft palate.

After marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma as a young man, John Lewis went on to become a legendary leader for civil rights alongside other giants of the movement like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.