George R. R. Martin Quotes

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

Simple duty hath no place for fear.

Be just, and fear not.

Fear could never make virtue.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

There are things a man must not do to save a nation.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

I should be trading on the blood of my men.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity