R. A. Salvatore Quotes

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

Put the army in the face of death where they cannot escape and they will do heroic things to win.

We humans have a powerful instinct to flee from peril. It takes a special kind of courage, a deep sense of duty, and extraordinary character to overcome these impulses and - for the sake of others - to run toward the danger.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.