Quotes About Courage

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.

One man can go where a group cannot, and manage on very little, particularly a rough adventurer such as he. More the point, he risks only himself when he goes: you much consider that in your charge is an inexpressibly valuable dragon, whose loss must be of greater importance than even this mission. Oh, pray, let us be gone at once, said the inexpressibly valuable dragon, when Laurence had carried the question, still unresolved, back to him. It sounds very exciting to me.

I'm not going to play it safe if you say yes, and I'm not going to do anything dumb if you say no." "What you mean is, you'll do an enormous number of truly stupid things no matter what!

Once down by the shore, only Temeraire went directly into the deep water and began to swim. Maximus came tentatively into the shallows, but went no further than he could stand, and Lily stood on the shore watching, nosing at the water but not going in. Levitas, as was his habit, first wavered on the shore, and then dashed out all at once, splashing and flapping wildly with his eyes tightly shut until he got out to the deeper water and began to paddle enthusiastically.

Well, I don't know, yet, the dragonet said, but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.

My heart broke, but I was not a young girl anymore, afraid of being trapped behind a door forever. I knew the door was safety, I knew the door would not always be closed, and I did not let her out.

My darling girl, I love you, have courage, my mother wrote, and keep far away from Orion Lake.

even though dignity matters fuck-all when the monsters under your bed are real.

It made me angry, because being angry was better than being afraid.

Feiglings!" Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons.

they will not be so foolish." "Men can be very foolish indeed," Laurence said, "and I must, I do, beg you not to enter into a resolution, which should prevent my being able to face death with equanimity. You should make me a coward, if I must fear that my death should turn you against my country." "But I do not at all want you to face death with equanimity

I wasn't sorry they didn't like me, I wasn't sorry I had been hard to them. I was glad, fiercely glad. They had wanted me to bury my mother and leave my father behind to die alone. They had wanted me to go be a beggar in my grandfather's house, and live the rest of my days a quiet mouse in the kitchen. They would have devoured my family and picked their teeth with the bones, and never been sorry at all. Better

He began to weep and make protests, but I didn't have the strength to

Sabes? Es casi admirable —dijo al cabo de un momento, con la voz menos temblorosa—. Estás medio muerta y sigues siendo la persona más borde que he conocido nunca. Y por cierto: de nada, otra vez.

they were wild-eyed and terrified even in their courage.

De school. De hele school. Wij gaan weg en we vullen de hele school met mals.' Ik staarde haar aan. 'En dan? Schoppen we het hele zwikkie de leegte in of zo?' 'Ja!' zei Liu.

him every word of praise he has earned from you and never received; you will tell him he has been brave, and loyal, and a better partner than you have deserved.

And I was so tired of being afraid all the time. It felt like I had been afraid and afraid without stopping forever.

I am not whimpering, at all," Temeraire muttered, and added, "ow!" There

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing

Me vino muy bien verlos permanecer allí sentados y no acudir en mi ayuda, porque cuando terminé de gritar por segunda vez y el desollador consiguió entrar, comprendí que estaba totalmente sola y que tendría que apañármelas como pudiera, pues no le importaba a nadie más.

Lots of us up for first run today," Alfie said, in the bright sort of way that someone might say, Well, looks like rain, doesn't it! when it's sheeting down and you've taken shelter under an awning with five people who've all got knives drawn, and you're quietly reaching into your pocket for a handgun.

Laurence reached up to wipe the grime from his face, and finding his hand come away red with gore felt back to where his scalp hung open and wet. Help me fold it up again, he said. A head wound is always a bloody nuisance; but unless my brains are out in the air, I suppose it will not kill me.

What happens to Peace when people fight? (She hides her face.) What does she dream of? (Better people.) Does she ever give up?