Quotes About Courage

Why die before you die? Your father and I have done something daring for probably the first time since we got married.

I think everybody falls, I think we all do. And I don´t think that's the asking. I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

So go. Run with it. Make trouble.

So what do I do?" he finally asked. You do what you did just now, the monster said. You speak the truth. "That's it?" You think it is easy? The monster raised two enormous eyebrows. You were willing to die rather than speak it.

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" I ask. "No," she says simply, looking away. "No, I don't, but I'm still going." She eyes me. "You coming with?

Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my Noise like whispers of the truth. "I think everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare into the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

Wherever you are, it's okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that's not how it always looks. That's not how it's always going to look. There's more. There's always more.

We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay.

Of course you are afraid, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. And yet you will still do it.

I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well give up.

You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

I'm not a fearful person," Joss said, invoking her mountaineering bona fides. "If K2 doesn't scare me, Florida does not scare me." (She had not climbed K2.)

Why did you not fight back?

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we'd like to be. And that sucks. But when you're confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive.

Vashet: "I will admit, I've never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time." Kvothe: "That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.

it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.

Sólo los sacerdotes y los locos no tienen miedo a nada, y yo nunca me he llevado muy bien con Dios