Quotes About Courage

Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the man he was now, who knew what it was to love and be loved. "Dear heart," he said. He took her hand and kissed it. "Who knows your courage better than I?

Right, because I'm flat-chested and a midget.

We are Shadowhunters. We do not wait to be saved by others. We save ourselves.

Shadowhunters were brought up to handle anything, weren't they?

Alec is not a bunny rabbit. He's a shadowhunter.

Anyone who says women are weak is afraid they're too strong.

Therefore you can never lose hope- hatikva -because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Listen to me. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand. We are bound, beyond the oath. The Marks did not change that. The oath did not change that. It merely gave words to something that existed already.

They need a muse," said Anna. "Someone to be inspired by. Someone to know their secrets. Would you like to be a muse?" "No," said Cordelia. "I would like to be a hero.

Women are fiercer by far than men.

Simon, don't you think I'm scared of that too? You're not the only one on that ledge. If we jump, we jump together. We fall together.

Whatever doesn't kill me...had better start running.

Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.

Speaking of luck, Isabelle Lightwood is a total babe. Actually, she's better than a babe: She's a hero. She came all the way here to tell the world you were hers. You're telling me she doesn't know another hero when she sees one? You're going to figure out what you're doing here. Isabelle Lightwood believes in you, and for what it's worth, I do too.

We Shadowhunters, we put ourselves in danger, every hour, every day. I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece.

Things did change. He'd gone from being eaten up with jealousy of Simon, to a grudging respect for his tenacity and courage, to actually considering him a friend, though he doubted he'd ever say so out loud

I don't want to be safe," he said. "I want to be with you

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

I think sometimes it's too hard to believe in yourself. You just do the things you're not sure you can do. You just act, in spite of not being certain. I don't believe I can change the world--it sounds stupid to even talk about it--but I'm going to try.

Crying wouldn't help anything now.

I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.

Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.

This was love, new and bright and terrifying

With hope at last.