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Quotes About Courage

I am afraid but I must be brave
~ George R.R. Martin
It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.
~ George R.R. Martin
It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel.
~ George R.R. Martin
Even the bravest men fear death and maiming
~ George R.R. Martin
She is of the north. She deserves better than a butcher.
~ George R.R. Martin
Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped her. Her cheeks turned a bright pink, and he was afraid she was about to start weeping again. Instead she thrust out her lip defiantly and said, "You're running too." "I am," he confessed. "but I am running TO and you are running FROM, and there's a world of difference there.
~ George R.R. Martin
Dorne has danced with dragons before," he said. "I would sooner sleep with scorpions.
~ George R.R. Martin
It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.
~ George R.R. Martin
In a swordfight, a man's surest defense is the swift stroke that slays his foe, not cringing behind a shield.
~ George R.R. Martin
I've never been frightened of shepherds. It's the sheep who trouble me.
~ George R.R. Martin
Lo peor no ha pasado. Lo peor no ha hecho más que empezar, y no hay final feliz.
~ George R.R. Martin
Fat and awkward and frightened he might be, but Samwell Tarly was no fool. One night he visited Jon in his cell. "I don't know what you did," he said, "but I know you did it." He looked away shyly. "I've never had a friend before." "We're not friends," Jon said. He put a hand on Sam's broad shoulder. "We're brothers.
~ George R.R. Martin
He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.
~ George R.R. Martin
Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?
~ George R.R. Martin
Begging for help never gets you any.
~ George R.R. Martin
Winter's here. Time for us to go. No better way to die than sword in hand.
~ George R.R. Martin
If any man tries to stop us, cut him down.
~ George R.R. Martin
Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. Craster sprawls in his loft even now, stinking of wine and lost to sense. On his board below lies a sharp new axe. Were it me, I'd name it "Answered Prayer' and make an end.
~ George R.R. Martin
It's dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o' it,
~ George R.R. Martin
If I fight, they must do the same, or they are less than dwarfs. "You won't hear me shout out Joffrey's name," he told them. "You won't hear me yell for Casterly Rock either. This is your city Stannis means to sack, and that's your gate he's bringing down. So come with me and kill the son of a bitch!
~ George R.R. Martin
Ser Rodrik shouted "Winterfell!" and rode to meet him, with Bronn and Chiggen beside him, screaming some wordless battle cry. Ser Willis Wode followed, swinging a spiked morningstar around his head. "Harrenhal! Harrenhal!" he sang. Tyrion felt a sudden urge to leap up, brandish his axe, and boom out, "Casterly Rock!" but the insanity passed quickly and he crouched down lower.
~ George R.R. Martin
Be brave, she told herself. Be brave, like a lady in a song.
~ George R.R. Martin
A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ser Barristan," she called, "I know what quality a king needs most." "Courage, Your Grace?" "Cheeks like iron," she teased. "All I do is sit.
~ George R.R. Martin