"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
Courage & Bravery
Inspiration to be bold
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"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
"Remember who you are."
"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"May the Force be with you."
"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof."
"To infinity and beyond!"
"Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great."
"I am Iron Man."
"You are not real! There is no mission! I am not a soldier!"
"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."
"You must not go there, Simba."
"I'm only brave when I have to be."
"Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble."
"I laugh in the face of danger."
"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
"You wanna ring the bell? Ring the bell."
"Fighters fight."
"I still got a lot of fight left in me."
"Now, in this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if youโre slightly more daring, O Captain! My Captain!"
"The difficulty of maintaining the belief in oneself in a world which conspires to make you like everyone else."
"Iโm going to act."
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
"Run, Forrest, run!"
"The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming."
"Because heโs the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now."
"A silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight."
"I wonโt kill you, but I donโt have to save you."
"You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with."
"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
"To conquer fear, you must become fear."
"As a man, I am flesh and blood. I can be ignored. I can be destroyed. But as a symbolโฆ I can be incorruptible."
"I will become a bat."
"The training is nothing! The will is everything!"
"I wonโt kill you, but I donโt have to save you."
"You must journey inwards to what you really fear."
"How do you like them apples?"
"Iโm not letting you get rid of me. How about that?"
"Iโm not going to do what everybody thinks Iโm going to do and just freak out."
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
"Itโs a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door."
"Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilboโs hand."
"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor."
"You shall not pass!"
"You have my sword."
"And you have my bow. And my axe."
"Guns. Lots of guns."
"Are you not entertained?"
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius."
"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
"Strength and honor."
"Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
"At my signal, unleash hell."
"The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor."
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
"Violence can be used for good."
"Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."
"I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch but one."
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"You jump, I jump, remember?"
"I'd rather be his whore than your wife."
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Youโre my only hope."
"Never tell me the odds!"
"Somebody has to save our skins."
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
"Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you."
"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
"I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A promise. "Don't you leave him, Samwise Gamgee.""
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends."
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."
"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
"At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you."
"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want."
"I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you."
"Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery."
"A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders."
"The training is nothing. The will is everything. The will to act."
"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live at least a while."
"I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny."
"I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!"
"It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."
"I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it."
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
"Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it."
"You are who you choose to be."
"What makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man."
"That's all it is, Miles. A leap of faith."
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
"Great moments are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here tonight, boys."
"A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try."
"You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind."
"You can't blend in when you were born to stand out."
"I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
"Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it, and I welcome every moment of it."
"I'm poor, Black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here."
"Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you're scared and you do it anyway."
"One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time."
"I have lived most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I would be grateful to die among my friends."
"Is it possible, just once, we could get something to eat for dinner around here that's not the goddamned fucking chicken?"
"If some girl came up to me, begged me to fuck her, I couldn't do it."
"Olive, I'll give you a million dollars if you turn around."
"Well, I'm going to give it to you anyway."
"I don't want you making the same mistakes I made when I was young."
"That young stuff is the best in the world."
"That young stuff is the best stuff in the whole world!"
"I mean, you hit 18, man, you're talking about three to five."
"Fuck you, I can say what I want!"
"I still got Nazi bullets in my ass!"
"I love it when you talk medical to me."
"They don't kill you unless you light them."
"It's a metaphor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
"I cannot stop thinking about this Goddamned book."
"However, we do need closure, don't you think?"
"I write to thank you for your electronic correspondence."
"I am grateful to anyone that sets aside time to read my book.""
"She may have forwarded that e-mail onto Van Houten."
"To answer your question: No, I have not written anything else, nor will I."
"I do not feel like continuing to share my thoughts with readers would benefit either them or me."
"If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things."
"I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me."
"You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen."
"I am in control because I know things that you do not know."
"What I will need from you now is a commitment."
"You will listen closely, and you will not judge me until I am finished."
"If you cannot commit to this, then please leave the room."
"But if you choose to stay, remember you chose to be here."
"What happens from this moment forward is not my responsibility."
"Some people thought we were at war with the Germansโ incorrect."
"You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from."
"Great cooking is not for the faint of heart."
"You must try things that may not work."
"And you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from."
"What I say is true - anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great."
"If you are hungry, go up and look around, Remy."
"Oh, you've just lost your family, all your friends."
"Ah, but that is no match for wishful thinking!"
"Food always comes to those who love to cook."
"Let us see how much you know, huh?"
"Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it."
"In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged, in secret, a Master Ring to control all others."
"And into this Ring he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life."
"And for two and a half thousand years, the Ring passed out of all knowledge."
"Darkness crept back into the forests of the world."
"Rumor grew of a shadow in the East โ whispers of a nameless fear."
"For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all."
"I give you the Light of Eรคrendil, our most beloved star."
"May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out."
"In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a Queen!"
"I don't like being stalked, not by psycho nerds OR THEIR CAT!"
"You're awful cheerful, considering you can't say anything."
"There were garden squash like balloon animals and snapdragons."
"Not pretend like the crazy man's at our house."
"The most fun I've had since we moved here."
"She's got this whole world where everything's better."
"The food, the garden, the neighbors, but it's all a trap."
"You're the jerkwad that gave me the doll!"
"Don't you only make wings for the dead ones?"
"Youโฆ have a very funny way of showing it."
"If you make a scene, my mom won't let me keep him."
"It's about 50 or 60 feet high and it only eats metal."
"Hey, big metal guy, I got food here for you!"
"So I guess you're not gonna hurt me, huh?"
"Hmm, maybe it's that bump from your head."
"Wow, my own giant robot, I am now the luckiest kid in America!"
"This is the greatest discovery since, I don't know, television or something."
"People will always wig out and start shooting when they see something big like you."
"That's the kind of stuff that makes them shoot at you."
"So, we can't call Ripley's Believe It or Not!"
"I hear you've got a hell of a right cross."
"Official policy is to arrest the vigilante know as "Batman" on sight."
"If you have problems with malfunctioning equipment, I suggest you take them up with maintenance, counselor."
"In this town, the fewer people know something, the safer the operation."
"If I didn't work with cops you'd investigated while you were making your name at I."
"I don't get political points for being an idealist."
"I have to do the best I can with what I have."
"I can give you the names of the banks."
"Harvey, I need to know which of my men I can trust."
"All tactical units will converge on the location in twenty minutes."
"Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, Princess."
"That garbage chute was a really wonderful idea!"
"Chewie here tells me you're lookin' for passage to the Alderaan system?"
"It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."
"Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you; I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now."
"What is it, some kind of local trouble?"
"Looks like somebody's beginning to take an interest in your handiwork."
"As a matter of fact, I was just going to see your boss."
"Yeah, but this time I've got the money."
"You didn't think I was gonna run, did you?"
"Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh."
"Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr Creedy."
"In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate."
"However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!"
"Allow me first to apologize for this interruption."
"I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition."
"I enjoy them as much as any bloke."
"There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak."
"I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way."
"Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power."
"I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart."
"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."
"I need a holiday, a very long holiday."
"And I don't expect that I shall return."
"Alas, eleventy one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable Hobbits."
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
"I've thought of an ending for my book."
"We don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations!"
"Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday!"
"I've put this off for far too long."
"Alright, people, let's do this one last time."
"And for the last 22 years, I thought I was the one and only Spider-Man."
"You see, I saved the city, fell in love, I got marriedโ saved the city some more, maybe too much."
"My marriage got testy, made some dicey money choices, don't invest in a spider-themed restaurant."
"I broke my back, a drone flew into my face."
"No matter how many times I get hit, I always get back up."
"And I got a lot of time to reflect and work on myself."
"Did you know that seahorses, that they mate for life?"
"A seahorse seeing another seahorseโ and then making it work?"
"She wanted kids andโ and it scared me."
"Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of Simba."
"That "hairball" is my son, and your future king."
"What am I going to do with him?"
"One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king."
"As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope."
"When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass."
"And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Life."
"Let an old pro show you how it's done."
"If you ever come near my son again--"
"I've got to teach my son a lesson."
"Well, a shot at it, at least, huh?"
"I've been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade."
"I've had a series of not-nice boyfriends, one of whom hit me."
"Ah, and every time I get my heart broken, the newspapers splash it about as though it's entertainment."
"And it's taken two rather painful operations to get me looking like this."
"No one has said "whoopsidaisies" for fifty years and even then it was only just little girls with blonde ringlets."
"Time was I'd have done the same thing."
"I just wanted to apologize for my friend - he's very sensitive."
"I'm sure you didn't mean any harm, I'm sure it was just friendly banter, I'm sure you guys have dicks the size of peanuts."
"The thing that's so irritating is that now I'm so totally fierce when it comes to nudity clauses."
"Mor'du has never been seen since and is roaming the wilds, waiting his chance at revenge."
"Mom, you'll never guess what I did today."
"I climbed up the Crone's Tooth and drank from the Fire Falls."
"You can just tell the lords, "The princess is not ready for this."
"In fact, she might not ever be ready for this, so that's that."
"We'll expect your declarations of war in the morning.""
"I don't want my life to be over."
"I'm not doing any of this to hurt you."
"I swear, Angus, this isn't going to happen."
"Not if I have any say in it."
"Well, the test of a soldier is not in his arm, it's here."
"Well, a test of a soldier is not in his arm, it's here."
"I was wondering if you could do that when it matters."
"Would you like to see him crush me like a worm?"
"How did you know me after so long?"
"Are you in the habit of riding off in the rain with strangers?"
"Well, if I can ever work up the courage to ask you again, I'll send you a written warning first."
"Well that's something we shall have to remedy, isn't it."
"Because every single day I thought about you."
"My kilt may fly up but I'll try."
"We have a plan, and we're going to stick to it."
"Come on, you're going to go see your family."
"I never got to say goodbye to my father."
"I would've asked him how he felt about what his company did, if he was conflicted, if he ever had doubts."
"Or maybe he was every inch of man we remember from the newsreels."
"I saw young Americans killed by the very weapons I created to defend them and protect them."
"And I saw that I had become part of a system that is comfortable with zero accountability."
"I came to realize that I had more to offer this world than just making things that blow up."
"And that is why, effective immediately, I am shutting down the weapons manufacturing division of Stark Industries."
"I was out of town for a couple months, in case you didn't hear."
"It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it."
"You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life."
"But it ain't about how hard you hit."
"It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward."
"I'm always gonna love you, no matter what."
"You know I think if you live some place long enough, you are that place."
"Rights, like in that official piece of paper they wrote down the street there?"
"Don't it say something about going after what makes you happy?"
"My point is, I'm pursuing something and nobody looks too happy about it."
"I appreciate that, but maybe you're looking out for your interests just a little bit more."
"My ship has run off course en route to sector 12."
"No readout yet if the air is breathable."
"And there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere."
"I'm Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger, Universe Protection Unit."
"Do you people still use fossil fuel or have you discovered crystallic fusion?"
"All right, everyone, you're clear to come up."
"Now, thank you all for your kind welcome."
"Actually, I-I'm-- I'm stationed in the Gamma Quadrant of Sector Four."
"You don't want to be in the way when my laser goes off."
"I think the word you're searching for is "Space Ranger.""
"I'm gonna die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy."
"Tivan, we have been halfway around the galaxy, retrieving this orb."
"How could I think Tivan could contain whatever was within the Orb?"
"We have to take this to the Nova Corps."
"We cannot allow the stone to fall into Ronan's hands."
"We have to go back to your ship and deliver it to Nova."
"If Ronan gets this stone, he'll kill us all."
"Then you know we must get it back!"
"He's gonna use it to wipe out Xandar."
"You don't get to ask questions after that nonsense you pulled on Knowhere!"
"It is not our abilities that show us what we truly are."
"I am well aware of our bylaws, Severus, having written quite a few of them myself."
"However, as head of Gryffindor House, it is for Professor McGonagall to determine the appropriate action."
"I want it understood, Cornelius, that Hagrid has my full confidence."
"And what exactly is it that you want with me?"
"If the governors desire my removal, I will, of course, step aside."
"When the governors learned that Arthur Weasley's daughter was taken into the Chamber, they saw fit to summon me back."
"Curiously, Lucius, several of them were under the impression that you would curse their families if they did not agree to suspend me in the first place."
"One hopes that no more of Voldemort's old school things should find their way into innocent hands."
"Tell me again, Maximus, why are we here?"
"Perfectly tolerable, I daresay, but not handsome enough to tempt me."
"You can only have two motives, Caroline, and I would not interfere with either."
"Miss Elizabeth, I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer."
"These past few months have been a torment."
"I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you."
"In vain I have struggled this will not do, allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"You must know, surely you must know, it was all for you."
"You are too generous to trifle with me."
"I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before."
"If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once."
"I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest."
"I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me."
"If I take one more step, I'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been."
""Don't you lose him, Samwise Gamgee", and I don't mean to."
"What we need is a few good taters."
"Boil em, mash em, stick 'em in a stew."
"Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish."
"I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales."
"I wonder if people will ever say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring," and they'll say, "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories.""
"We have to be careful or we're going to run out."
"I'm sure that Edward is already searching for me."
"No doubt by morning he'll come and rescue me from this strange land."
"Take me home so that the two of us can share a true love's kiss."
"We adore each filthy chore that we determine."
"So, friends, even though you're vermin, we're a happy working throng!"
"You see, I've been wandering very far and long tonight, and I'm afraid nobody has been very nice to me."
"Well, I don't think they would hear you from here."
"Now, if only I can find a place to rest my head for the night."
"Maybe a nearby meadow or a hollow tree."
"Well, does he take you out dancing just so he can hold you close?"
"I am a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan."
"Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars."
"Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire."
"I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit."
"My father will know how to retrieve it."
"You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan."
"I should've expected to find you holding Vader's leash."
"I recognized your foul stench when I was brought onboard."
"I'm surprised you had the courage to take the responsibility yourself."
"I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain."
"I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished."
"If none of us make it, at least there'll be some kind of record."
"The storm's been hitting us hard now for 48 hours."
"One other thing: I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over."
"Windows found some shredded long johns, but the nametag was missing."
"And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human."
"This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation."
"It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open."
"If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it."
"We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood, 'cause we're gonna find out who's the Thing."
"To think, all that time it was your cup that was poisoned."
"You can die slowly, cut into a thousand pieces."
"With eyes like the sea after a storm."
"And the Dread Pirate Roberts never takes prisoners."
"But how is that possible, since he's been marauding twenty years and you only left me five years ago?"
"If we surrender and I return with you, will you promise not to hurt this man?"
"He is a sailor on the pirate ship Revenge."
"I thought you were dead once and it almost killed me."
"I could not bear it if you died again, not when I could save you."
"Every ship but your four fastest, you mean."
"In Okinawa, all Miyagi know two things: fish and karate."
"Karate come from China, sixteenth century, called te, "hand"."
"Hundred year later, Miyagi ancestor bring to Okinawa, call karate."
"Five to one problem, too much ask anyone."
"No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher."
"Now use head for something other than target, Daniel-san."
"In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants."
"Walk middle, sooner or later, get squished, just like grape."
"Either you karate do "yes", or karate do "no"."
"You karate do "guess so", just like grape."
"Gentlemen, you have had four hours, you had better have results."
"I never want to hear that music again."
"Mr Dascombe, what are we doing about that?"
"I want Prothero to speak tonight on the dangers of these old buildings and how we must avoid clinging to the edifice of a decadent past."
"He should conclude that the New Bailey will become the symbol of our time and the future that our conviction has rewarded us."
"Moments such as these are matters of faith."
"To fail is to invite doubt into everything we believe, everything that we have fought for."
"Doubt will plunge this country back into chaos and I will not let that happen."
"Gentlemen, I want this terrorist found, and I want him to understand what terror really means."
"Am I to understand that you have read this document, inspector?"
"The Declaration of Independence is not a bargaining chip."
"The Founding Fathers believed the same thing about government."
"I figure their solution will work for the treasure, too."
"Chase gets off completely clean; not even a little Post-It on her service record."
"I'd really love not to go to prison."
"I can't even describe how much I would love not to go to prison."
"Well, if you've got a helicopter, I think I can help with that."
"Ian, I'm not going to let you steal the Declaration of Independence."
"There's more to the riddle; information you don't have, I do."
"I'm the only one who can solve it."
"Soon, Master Elf, you will enjoy the fabled hospitality of the Dwarves: roaring fires, malt beer, red meat off the bone."
"Nor a sign of a quarry of what a bare rock can tell!"
"Give me your name, Horse-master, and I shall give you mine."
"It's true you don't see many Dwarf women."
"In fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they're often mistaken for Dwarf men."
"This in turn has given raise to the belief that there are no women."
"And that Dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground!"
"Or would you like me to find you a box?"
"Shoot him, stick an arrow in his gob!"
"Have you learned nothing of the stubbornness of Dwarves?"
"By the power invested in me I now pronounce us ready to eat."
"You can call me anything you want as long as you keep me alive."
"There's nothing but a lot of white women dressed as nuns!"
"I'm gonna go back and work this out with Vince."
"I'm not gonna be in no damn convent with these people."
"This is fine for covering a little bulge, but now I've got holster hips."
"Like Clarence Williams III from The Mod Squad?"
"Mary Lazarus, as soon as I walked through the door, I knew that you knew this."
"Now, you're somebody who's into hard work and discipline, aren't you?"
"Lord, I want you to forgive Willy and Joey, because they know not what they do."
"And rich white people pay me to play piano for them because it makes them feel cultured."
"But as soon as I step off that stage, I go right back to being just another negro to them."
"And I suffer that side alone, because I'm not accepted by my own people 'cause I'm not like them, either."
"So if I'm not black enough and if I'm not white enough and if I'm not man enough then tell me, Tony, what am I!?"
"You only win when you maintain your dignity."
"I'm about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South."
"And those weren't children on the cover, those were demons in the bowels of Hell."
"Next time you need extra money, just ask me."
"So stooping down in the gravel pitching dice for pocket change makes you a winner?"
"They didn't have a choice whether to be inside or out."
"But I thought a king can do whatever he wants."
"My dad just showed me the whole kingdom."
"Hey, Uncle Scar, when I'm king, what'll that make you?"
"Well, when I'm king, that'll be the first thing to go."
"So you have to do what I tell you."
"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!"
"Everywhere you look I'm Standin' in the spotlight!"
"But Zazu, you told me they're nothin' but slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers."
"Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?"
"I was just trying to be brave like you."
"I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care; I am me."
"I don't think I'll live much longer, and I wanted to tell someone about my life."
"This is the only autobiography I'll ever write, and God - I'm writing it on toilet paper."
"I don't remember much of those early years, but I do remember the rain."
"My grandmother owned a farm in Tuttlebrook, and she used to tell me that God was in the rain."
"I passed my 11th lesson into girl's grammar."
"It was at school that I met my first girlfriend."
"I thought we would love each other forever."
"I remember our teacher telling us that it was an adolescent phase people outgrew."
"In 2002, I fell in love with a girl named Christina."
"I don't want you messing around with southpaws."
"This guy, the one you want to fight, he looks serious."
"I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man kept coming after you."
"Now, we don't need that kinda man like that in our lives."
"Girls love you - Men, old people love you."
"This bum shouldn't be in the same ring with you."
"I want you to show him who you are tonight."
"Punch and punch, till you can't punch no more!"
"You know all there is to know about fighting, so there's no sense us going down that same old road again."
"To beat this guy, you need speed - you don't have it."
"He was born with his foot in his mouth."
"You know me, always taking on too much."
"Like you guys tell your parents off, Mr."
"Well just don't tell me how to talk to my father."
"I don't give a damn about any of it."
"Hey, you coming to the study group tonight?"
"To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme, and figures of speech."
"Then ask two questions: One, how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered, and two, how important is that objective."
"Question one rates the poem's perfection, question two rates its importance."
"And once these questions have been answered, determining a poem's greatest becomes a relatively simple matter."
How to browse Courage & Bravery quotes
These original editorial notes explain how to use the real quotes in this category for captions, speeches, writing prompts, and deeper browsing. They add context without inventing additional movie dialogue.
01 ยท Start with source context
โWhy do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.โ
Thomas Wayne ยท Batman Begins
This courage & bravery line is strongest when readers see the source first: Thomas Wayne in Batman Begins. The movie context keeps the quote from becoming a generic saying and helps the page feel like a credited archive, not a loose inspiration list.
02 ยท Use it as a caption
โIt ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.โ
Rocky Balboa ยท Rocky Balboa
For captions, pair Rocky Balboa's line with a short personal note rather than another famous line. The quote already brings the cinematic weight; your sentence should explain why this courage & bravery moment fits the photo, milestone, or mood.
03 ยท Use it in a speech
โRemember who you are.โ
Mufasa ยท The Lion King
For a speech, introduce the film before the line and explain the scene after it. That rhythm lets The Lion King provide familiarity while your own point carries the emotional work of courage & bravery.
04 ยท Compare character pressure
โWhat we do in life echoes in eternity.โ
Maximus ยท Gladiator
Maximus's situation matters. A category page becomes more useful when readers compare how different characters reach courage & bravery through conflict, comedy, romance, grief, or a decisive act of courage.
05 ยท Read for emotional temperature
โThey may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!โ
William Wallace ยท Braveheart
Not every quote in Courage & Bravery has the same temperature. William Wallace's line may be gentle, defiant, funny, romantic, or reflective, so choose it for the emotional weather of the moment rather than only the category label.
06 ยท Build a carousel slide
โEven the smallest person can change the course of the future.โ
Galadriel ยท The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A strong carousel can put Galadriel's quote on slide one, attribution on slide two, and interpretation on slide three. That structure turns courage & bravery into a small story instead of a standalone quote graphic.
07 ยท Keep the actor credit visible
โIt is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.โ
Albus Dumbledore ยท Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Richard Harris's performance is part of why the line remains memorable. Keeping the actor credit visible adds trust, improves discovery, and reminds readers that a quote is also a performed moment.
08 ยท Move from category to movie
โMay the Force be with you.โ
Han Solo ยท Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
If this line fits, the next useful click is often the full Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope movie page. That path lets readers move from a broad courage & bravery need into a specific film voice and related quotes.
09 ยท Move from movie to adjacent themes
โBeneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof.โ
V ยท V for Vendetta
This quote may also overlap with tags such as ideas, revolution, identity. Those adjacent tags help readers refine the mood when courage & bravery is close but not exact enough.
10 ยท Use it as a writing prompt
โTo infinity and beyond!โ
Buzz Lightyear ยท Toy Story
Turn the line into a prompt by asking what Buzz Lightyear risks in this moment. The best courage & bravery quotes usually involve a cost: vulnerability, patience, sacrifice, honesty, or a change the character cannot reverse.
11 ยท Choose it for short-form posts
โAnyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.โ
Auguste Gusteau ยท Ratatouille
For short-form posts, keep the caption clean: quote, source, one sentence of context. The category gives readers the emotional map, while Ratatouille gives the line a recognizable home.
12 ยท Choose it for long-form reflection
โI am Iron Man.โ
Tony Stark ยท Iron Man
For a longer reflection, use the quote as evidence. Explain why Tony Stark says it, what changes in the scene, and why that version of courage & bravery feels different from the next quote in the collection.
13 ยท Avoid flattening the line
โYou are not real! There is no mission! I am not a soldier!โ
John Nash ยท A Beautiful Mind
A category label is useful, but it can flatten nuance. Keep the quote attached to John Nash, because the character voice is what separates a real movie quote from interchangeable motivational text.
14 ยท Use genre as a filter
โFear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.โ
Narrator ยท The Shawshank Redemption
Drama storytelling shapes how this line feels. A courage & bravery quote from a drama, comedy, romance, or adventure film will carry different expectations even when the core theme is similar.
15 ยท Look for the turning point
โYou must not go there, Simba.โ
Mufasa ยท The Lion King
Ask whether Mufasa's quote arrives before, during, or after a turning point. Category pages are most valuable when they show courage & bravery as movement inside a story, not just as an attractive sentence.
16 ยท Use attribution for trust
โI'm only brave when I have to be.โ
Mufasa ยท The Lion King
Attribution is part of quality. A reader should be able to move from this line to The Lion King, Mufasa, and James Earl Jones without guessing where the quote came from.
17 ยท Pair with related quotes
โBeing brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.โ
Mufasa ยท The Lion King
Pair this The Lion King quote with a contrasting result from the same category. The comparison helps readers decide whether they want a softer, sharper, funnier, or more cinematic version of courage & bravery.
18 ยท Use the archive path
โI laugh in the face of danger.โ
Simba ยท The Lion King
The practical archive path is category โ lion-king-laugh-danger โ movie โ actor โ tag. That sequence gives readers multiple ways to keep exploring courage & bravery without landing on a thin or contextless page.