Quotes About Courage

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

My name is Nynaeve ti al'Meara Mandragoran. The message I want sent is this. My husband rides from World's End toward Tarwin's Gap, toward Tarmon Gai'don. Will he ride alone?

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

Sene sovya caba'donde ain dovienya

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die.

To stand against the Shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides. To defend the Malkieri while one drop of blood remains. To avenge what cannot be defended.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

But hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon. —al'Lan Mandragoran

You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.

Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

Mat snorted. "I don't want to be any bloody hero.

The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.

He let them be heroes.

May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon

Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?

You will do well.

Well, we'll survive, the Light willing. Some grinned and added, And if the Light doesn't will, we'll still survive.