Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.' Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.' You risked your life.' But I didn't even think about that! I was only thinking of-' He interrupted her,smiling. 'That's all that brave means-not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. So did I.

I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

would you like to hear the night i bravely fought the- no? alright

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)