Quotes
Arya watched them die and said nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? ... There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones.
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose.
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
It is a lonely and arduous excursion, a sufficient test of courage and sincerity: for most men prefer to dwell in comfortable ignorance upon the lower slopes, and there to make of their obvious characteristics a drapery which shall veil the naked truth.
p. 82
"Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?"
"That is the only time a man can be brave."
Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
The world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.
Courage is the ability to ignore your options.
There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear.
Courage has many faces.
Evil is never truly strong, for it is born of fear. Why did he fall so easily? Because he tested your strength and saw the possibility of death [...] had he possessed true courage, he would have fought back. Instead he froze — and died.
