Quotes About Courage

13Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.

When I had to leave she kissed me on both cheeks - a thing she had never done before - and said, 'There's just one thing to remember; whatever happens, it does no good to be afraid.' So I promised not to be afraid, and may even have been a fool enough to think I could keep my promise.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

Sometimes fear could be forgotten, but never for long.

Heroj modernog doba, to je ?ovek koji iz unutrašnje borbe izlazi kao pobednik.

I am like a man who has built his house on the lip of a volcano. Until the volcano claims me I live, in a sense, heriocally.

you can spiritually revitalize yourself and your world, in accordance with what is possible for your own age, and the Strangers occupy an inner world of timeless power, which is still available to all that have the courage and love to make the fires on the stones and spill some blood for them.

Story, it turns out, is the assassin of despair.

I come to call down my destiny - and it is tall and dangerous!

Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.

God, help me. I don't want to be afraid all the time. I['m tired of it. So tired of it.

You know who you are. You know who God says you are. Live up to that, and it doesn't matter what others think or say.

Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.

So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.

Robin McKinley

And when I looked up and saw you as you were, in no gaudy robes and bearing no solemn goblet - suddenly I had hope.' 'I did not see you looking,' said Mirasol. 'I did no want you to see,' said the Master.'And I looked away quickly, because I knew the hope was false. I knew - I think I knew - that it was not really about hope, it was about looking at you. And so I looked at Horuld, and at his sword, and reminded myself that they were about to kill me.

Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom. But I did know. Now was what was at the bottom. I was already there.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart.

Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.

She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.

But the worst borne is not necessarily past and over with thereby. The worst of fighting a dragon is being caught in its fire, but you do not survive dragon encounters by commanding your muscles to withstand dragon fire, because you and they cannot. You survive by avoiding being burnt.

She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her.