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Quotes About Courage

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
~ Robert Jordan
Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
~ Robert Jordan
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
~ Robert Jordan
You can never know everything," Lan said quietly, "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.
~ Robert Jordan
Until you can, remember this. We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
~ Robert Jordan
Lan shook his head sightly He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.
~ Robert Jordan
He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They could gentle him, or burn him to a crisp where he stood, and he no longer cared.
~ Robert Jordan
A man would know he had to walk through fire and tame a lioness with his bare hands every time he approached you. Every day an adventure, and every night . . .
~ Robert Jordan
You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!
~ Robert Jordan
Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.
~ Robert Jordan
You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.
~ Robert Jordan
It was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission.
~ Robert Jordan
When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he's nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command,and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.
~ Robert Jordan
If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene
~ Robert Jordan
And so we begin the game that cannot be won," Thom said, sliding the knife back into its sheath. "Courage to strengthen," Noal whispered, stepping forward, holding up a lantern with a flickering flame. "Fire to blind. Music to dazzle. Iron to bind." "And Matrim Cauthon," Mat added. "To bloody even the odds." He stepped through the doorway. Light
~ Robert Jordan
Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.
~ Robert Jordan
It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.
~ Robert Jordan
We'll toss the dice however they fall, And snuggle the girls be they short or tall, Then follow young Mat whenever he calls, To dance with Jak o' the Shadows.
~ Robert Jordan
Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.
~ Robert Jordan
If you ever meet a Malkieri," Noal said, "you tell him Jain Farstrider died clean." "I will, Jain," Mat said. "May the light hold you." Noal
~ Robert Jordan
The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests.
~ Robert Jordan
Sing of Manetheren, the sword that could not be broken.
~ Robert Jordan
WE WILL MEET AGAIN ON TOMAN HEAD. IT IS NEVER OVER, AL'THOR.
~ Robert Jordan
Sa souvraya niende misain ye.
~ Robert Jordan