Orson Scott Card Quotes on Courage
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: the end of the world. He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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Never mind that the rules are stupid and counterproductive. I broke them.
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Before I do it, I have to know: is it a cause worth dying for?
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I'm Mr. Scared-from-Ass-to-Ankles. Whereas you are just plain old miss ass.
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Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.
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May the day when you need courage never come even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.
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All it did was let her step off that brink into the dark unknown with a smile on her face and pride in her heart. It made death sweet to her.
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I don't care if it's the whole world that everything in it, on it, and above it. I...will...not...bend.
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Hiding from your enemy is the same as letting him win
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It makes people willing to act according to what they believe. To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps...loosen them up
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I want the truth, no matter how hard it is to hear it.
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I realized that to [him], at least, cowardice was not something to be loathed, it was something to be cast out, to be exorcised, to be killed
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It's a brave man who beats a little child. They'll no doubt write songs about your courage.
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Ansset could clearly hear the fear singing through the back of his brave words. Well, why not? Death was certain now, and Ansset knew of no one, except perhaps an old man like Mikal, who could look at death, especially death that also meant failure, without some fear
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[he] looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
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Aren't you the strong one. Aren't you brave, to insist on reality. You never could face your own dreams.