12 Wise Quotes about Courage found in Fantasy Books

Here are 12 wise quotes about courage and bravery found in fantasy and fictional literature.

“Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”
Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you are afraid all the time.”
David Benioff, City of Thieves

“It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you are brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave.”
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
George R.R. Martin, A Feast of Crows

“Choosing love over war: both are brave choices, in their own way.”
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think that true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly. Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to give all of yourself, the kind of person who is willing to love with all your heart even though you’ve experienced just how much it can hurt…maybe you get lots of true loves, then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave. I am a woman who dares to love again.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves