Quotes About Courage

back away. As Sleem said, there is no value in despair. But plenty of despair in value, once the illusion is revealed.

When suffering awaits, it takes great courage to stride forward, to enter this unrelenting, unforgiving realm.

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

Cuttle smiled, and then he whispered to them in his mind, You should have seen our last stands. They were something. They were something. Darkness, and then brightness – brightness like a summer day without end. He went there, without a single look back.

The most deadly seducers are the ones encouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward…not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

There were loves in the world that never found voice. There were secrets never unveiled, and what would have been the point of that? She was no languid beauty. She was no genius wit. Courage failed her again and again, but not this time, as she drew sharp blades lengthways up her wrists, at precise angles, and watched as life flowed away. In Irilta's mind, this last gesture was but a formality.

This is the last day of the Khundryl Burned Tears. My children, do you ride with me? I know you do. My children, be brave this day. See your father, and know that he is proud of you all.

The young were better at making friends. The young had nothing to lose

What gesture will you make, to announce to all the true colour of your soul? How long will we all wait for you to find your courage?

he'd stayed, nailed to a single tree but only because he'd grown used to the scenery around it. It was amazing what could be endured when in the grip of inertia. He had reached a point where anything strange, unfamiliar, was cause for fear. But unlike his brothers and sisters, Mappo could not ride that fear across the full span of his life. For all that, it had taken the horror he now approached to prise him from the tree.

the boy walks another soldier, another one bright heart not yet cooled to hard iron

And, hovering inches from her throat, was the tip of the warrior's flint sword.

to hide weakness behind bluster was to hide nothing at all.

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too over- whelming, for even should we fail – should we fall – we will know that we have lived.' Anomander

Ask not the hero about heroism Forgive the unwillingness To lock gazes while you search For what cannot be explained

Out of your depth, Captain? Don't worry, every damn person here's out of their depth. Some know it, some don't. It's the ones who don't you got to worry about. Start with what's right in front of you and forget the rest for now. It'll show up in its own time.

To the executioner's axe there are those who kneel, head bowed, and await their fate. Then there are those who fight, who strain, who cry out their defiance even as the blade descends

Bridgeburners get pounded all the time. We just get back up. No bluster, just back up, aye.

You'll do right, soldier, because you don't know how to do anything else. Doing right, soldier, is the only thing you're good at.' And if it hurts? 'Too bad. Stop your bitching, Fid. Besides, you ain't as alone as you think you are.

Us soldiers only got one kind of coin worth anything, and it's called respect. And we hoard it, we hide it away, and there ain't nobody who'd call us generous. Easy spenders we're not. But there's something feels even worse than having to give up a coin – it's when somebody steps up and tosses one back at us.

even if it meant pulling Oponn kicking and screaming on to this plain to face whatever lay ahead.

Now that's a laugh, isn't it? The most deadly seducers are the ones encouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward…not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.