Terry Pratchett Quotes

There is salvation only for the brave.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

Courage is more important than confidence

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Courage is action, not talk.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.