Quotes About Courage

Mouse isn't big. He's compactly challenged.

I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.

Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I'd never said them to anyone I didn't lose

He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.

See, here's the thing. Morgan was right: you can't win them all. But that doesn't mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part—he was too busy living it.

And if I was to die, I was not going to go out in a gibbering heap of terror.

I might be the dumb kid with the sledgehammer from his father's toolshed, compared to the sword-saint samurai who were the Senior Council—but I had discovered, in my time, that no matter how skilled and elegant a foe might be, a sledgehammer to the skull is a sledgehammer to the skull.

I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now.

Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive.

For the good of the people, some must place themselves in harm's way. Some must pledge their courage and their lives to protect the community.

There are a lot of ways to get ready for trouble. You get ready to fight. That's one of them. But it's even more important that you build something worth fighting for.

I find it remarkable how often amateurs confuse courage with idiocy.

Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There's a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There's heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse.

Run away. Me and Monty Python.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style.

You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves.

Come with me if you want to live.

We all must die, Dresden. There is no shame in dying for something worthwhile.

Eventually, it's better to go forward into it and have things settled than to huddle in terror for one second longer.

MY NAME IS Mouse and I am a Good Dog. Everyone says so.

Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!

Tell me something important about her. People make fun of her? Some did, she said. I never liked it, but... Crap. I looked at Molly and said, Code Carrie. We're in trouble.