Quotes About Courage

It isn't complicated. You just open up and let someone in. And whatever comes after that, you face it together.

Butters, rumbled Skaldi Hair Ball. If he really had broken fingers, it didn't look like they were bothering him much. When are you going to get in this ring and train like a man? About five minutes after I get a functional lightsaber, Butters replied easily, much to Hair Ball's amusement.

Give it to 'em! Take 'em down! First Aleran! Kick their furry-- Assault formation!

One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.)

This is scary. And we're doing it anyway, I said. That makes us brave, right? If we get away with it, I said. If we don't, it just makes us stupid.

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

She put her hands on his face, and whispered Death is nothing to me, chala. Not if we are together. Death is not to be feared. She leaned forward and kissed his mouth, very gently. Then she rested her forehead against his. Being taken from one another. That terrifies me. It terrifies me. I will go to any wasted wilderness, to any horrible city, into any nightmare to keep you at my side, chala, and never flinch. I never have. But do not ask me to leave you.

if you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you. If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring

Battles are fought in muddy fields, in burning towns, in treacherous forests, in unforgiving mountains, and on the blood-spattered stones of contested bridges, Tavi realized. But battles are won within the minds and hearts of the soldiers fighting them. No force was defeated in battle until it believed that it was defeated. No force could be victorious unless it believed it could be victorious. The First Aleran believed. The Canim raiders weren't sure.

Speak for yourself," Murphy said. "I just gave my last grenade to a Valkyrie and ordered her to blow up a kraken. I'm having a ball.

Here there be monster. Bob whispered, half hysterically. Run! Run already!

It hurts! bellowed Ramirez drunkenly, flinging a last pair of bolts at a fleeing ghoul. Ow! Ow, it hurts! It hurts to be this *good*!

I leaned into Karrin a little and said, next to her ear, You ready for this? Only a lunatic is ready for this, she said. I could hear her smile as she spoke. Then she turned her head and, before I could react, planted a kiss right on my mouth. I almost fell off the Harley. She drew her head back, flashed me a wicked little smile, and said, For luck. Star Wars -style. You are so hot right now, I told her.

Form up, I murmured, because it sounded more military and tougher than saying, You guys go first.

There are many things you have never done," Rowl responded. "To be frightened of them is of no use to you.

Close your cowardly lips over that void in your head where your brains went missing and keep them there. Then put your lazy, shapeless ass back into your chair and do it swiftly. Or face me in the juris macto.

in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway.

Senator. If you call my friend a liar one more time, I will take it badly. Excuse me? Arnos said, his eyebrows rising up. I suggest you find an alternate shortsighted, egomaniacally ridiculous reason to blatantly, recklessly ignore an obvious threat to the Realm simply because you don't wish it to exist. If you cannot restrain yourself from base slander, I will be pleased to meet you in juris macto and personally rip your forked tongue from your head.

These creatures have destroyed our lands. Murdered our people. Isana lifted her chin. Pay them for it. When Antillus Raucus looked up, his eyes were hard, cold, and clear. Watch me.

Legionares are not afraid of dinner," Max growled, giving the taurg a dire glare. "Dinner is afraid of legionares.

Because . . . fear is a terrible, insidious thing, Waldo. It taints and stains everything it touches. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

I settled in and told Michael, Now, if only we had some Wagner to send us on our way. I saw Gard's reflection in the chopper's front windows look up at my words. Then she flicked a couple of switches, and Ride of the Valkyries started thrumming through the helicopter's cabin. Yee-haw, I said as my elbows and knees started a nagging ache. As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style.

I rode the dinosaur into the stream of zombies following in the Wardens' wake and let her go to town. Sue chomped and stomped and smacked zombies fifty feet through the air with swinging blows of her snout. Her tail batted one particularly vile-looking zombie into the brick wall of the nearest building, and the zombie hit so hard and so squishily that it just stuck to the wall like a refrigerator magnet, arms and legs spread in a sprawl.