Quotes About Courage

more enemies, more honour.

He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.

History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?

he possessed for attractive form of courage: bravery of a nervous man. After all, any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life or hasn't the wit to appreciate the danger. But to understand the risks, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then summon the strength to face them down--that is my opinion is the most commendable for of value...

Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -

I doubt they'd kill me. And if they did—well, what does it matter? I'm old, and there could be no better death than in defence of freedom.

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets—to the stars and beyond—carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We're the bloody infantry.

There ain't a problem on this great green earth helped by feeling sorry for yourself.

We all have our battle scars, Kentucky. The ones who wear them on the outside are just a little more honest about it, that's all.

British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose.

I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! --Mat Cauthon

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

Read and find out.

Cauthon lives, Arganda said. And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of his damane, and chased off his wife. Cauthon crawled out of it somehow. Ha! Abell Cauthon said. That's my boy.

Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the hadori in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the ki'sain in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the Shadow. I wear the ki'sain , Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the hadori . So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the Last Battle alone?

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

How would you feel, Elayne said softly, if you saw your queen trying to kill a Trolloc with a sword as you ran away? I'd feel like I needed to bloody move to another country, Birgitte snapped, loosing another arrow, one where the monarchs don't have pudding for brains.