No Queens We Willna Be Fooled Again Meme

The catchphrase of the Audubon Ballroom, "Shall nosotros trip the light fantastic toe?" Though, admittedly, yous could say anything and it would be badass if you happen to do it while charging head-on into a squad of Super Soldiers with Guns Akimbo.

• "Sneer and be damned," indeed! Though Victor Cachat never actually says it out loud, and, over again, anything said while in the process of turning super-solders into blood pudding is almost guaranteed to be badass.

Weber's practiced at this. I of the treecats, recognizing that the 'cats who prefer humans will have shorter-than-normal lifespans, says: "Perhaps our time volition be brusque, but oh, how we shall blaze confronting the dark!" (Worlds of Honor, "What Toll Dreams")

Djan Seriy Anaplian, Matter:

"Firing, non admiring"

The Gunslinger's Creed:

I do non aim with my hand;

He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

I aim with my centre.

I do not shoot with my hand;

He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

I shoot with my mind.

I exercise not kill with my gun;

He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.

I kill with my heart.

Republic Commando Series:

• The Mandalorian Resol'nare, or Six Actions.

  Ba'jur bal beskar'gam,
  Ara'november, aliit,
  Mando'a bal Mand'alor
  An vencuyan mhi.

• Doesn't sound quite every bit badass in English language, merely it translates to:

  Education and armor,
  Self-defense, our tribe,
  Our language and our leader,
  All assistance us survive.

The Wheel of Time:

• The Aiel: "Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming disobedience with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder'southward heart on the Last Day."
• The Asha'man: "The Blackness Tower protects. Always."
• And the Borderlanders stole the Bushido quote: Death is lighter than a feather, Duty heavier than a mount
• "Assault on footing where your enemy believes you will non, from an unexpected direction at an unexpected fourth dimension. Defend where your enemy believes yous are not, and when he believes you volition run. Surprise is the fundamental to victory, and speed is the key to surprise. For the soldier, speed is life." —Comadrin
• A Kandori oath taken when a boy is starting time given a sword (at age 14):

  Why do you draw your sword?
  In defense of my honor, my family or my homeland
  How long practise you fight?
  Until my last breath joins the northern wind.
  When do you lot stop watching?
  (whispered) Never.
  Speak it louder!
  (shouted) Never!

• The adjuration of the Malkieri warriors:

  "My arm will be the sword, my breast itself a shield, to defend the seven towers, to concord dorsum the darkness. I volition stand when all others fall. For my sweet land Malkier."

• The Oath of the Malkieri kings:

  "To stand confronting the Shadow so long equally atomic number 26 is hard and stone abides. To defend the Malkieri while ane drib of blood remains. To avenge what cannot be defended."

• The creed of the Band of the Ruby Hand: Dovie'andi se tovya sagain: It's time to toss the dice.
• Mathrim Cauthon, usually when charging into danger to save someone: "I'k no bloody hero!"

A Song of Ice and Burn down:

• The oath of the Nighttime's Scout.

  Night gathers, and at present my lookout begins. Information technology shall non finish until my decease. I shall accept no married woman, concord no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my postal service. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the burn down that burns against the cold, the lite that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night'south Spotter, for this dark and all the nights to come up.

• The motto of the Faceless Men: Valar morghulis; valar dohaeris. (All men must die; all men must serve.)
• "The North Remembers" The unofficial motto of the North. The people of this region have long memories. Honorable reputations engender indelible loyalty and injustices are not easily forgiven or forgotten.
• Arya's "Fright cuts deeper than swords."
• The diverse houses all take their own mottoes of a self-aggrandizing boast, but the Starks accept the enigmatic and ominous, "Wintertime Is Coming."
• In addition to their official motto, the Lannisters too have the unofficial motto, "A Lannister always pays his debts." This is usually a threat, only if the Lannisters really do owe you something, you'll be paid, and probably with interest.
• The Boltons take the saying: "A naked man has few secrets, a flayed human none." Also not their official motto.

Dune:

• The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fearfulness: "I will non fearfulness. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the lilliputian decease that brings total obliteration. I will face up my fear. I will permit it to laissez passer over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will plough the inner center to come across its path. Where the fearfulness has gone there volition be nothing. Only I will remain."
• And from the 1984 movie, more of an entertaining psycho creed from the mentats... Information technology is past will solitary I set my mind in motion. Information technology is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a alarm. Information technology is by will solitary I set up my mind in motility. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning...

Several examples Discworld:

• Subverted in The Last Hero, with the creed (suggested by Rincewind) for the expedition to stop Cohen the Barbarian beingness Morituri Nolumus Mori, translated from Latin to English it reads as "Nosotros who are virtually to die don't desire to." Vetinari still lets it stand considering it's an appropriate motto for a mission to preclude The End of the World as Nosotros Know Information technology.
• The Nac Mac Feegle in The Wee Gratuitous Men: "Nae king, nae queen, nae laird, nae master. Nosotros WILLNA BE FOOLED AGAIN!" In fact, the Feegle have several Badass Creeds, and a addiction of shouting them all out at one time in a confused mess.
• La Résistance in Night Sentry Discworld: "Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a difficult-boiled egg!" ^annotation The Seamstresses Lodge objected to "Gratis" love, and Vimes added the bit nigh the Hard-Boiled Egg because while the appearance of the others seemed unlikely to him, the Hard-Boiled Egg at least stood a risk of showing upward. Information technology did, just information technology got shredded before he had a chance to eat information technology.
• The Assassinator's Lodge motto: "Nil mortifi, sine lucre" (No killing, without payment).
• Death:
  • In Reaper Man: In that location is no promise but us. There is no mercy just us. There is no justice. At that place is just us.
  • On another occasion, he muses: "Who knows what Evil lurks in the Hearts of Men?". Then The Death Of Rats squeaks a annotate, and Expiry adds, "Well, yes, plainly me. I just wondered if there was anyone else."
  • "What tin can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Human being?
• The City Sentinel motto:
  • "Fabricati diem, pvnc", an abbreviated form of the old motto "Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter," ^note "Make the Day, the Moments Pass Apace.".
  • The Lookout man oath is pretty badass as well, for all it's Hello, [Insert Name Here]-ishness:
  • Note that it's traditional to say it literally. "I comma subclass recruit's name end-bracket comma..."
  • Vimes has noted that the Adjuration is a treacherous, slippery thing. It allows the alert, considerate Watchman about complete freedom of action to do good things. Of particular notation is the unmarried reference to upholding the actual laws of the city, numerous references to protecting and serving the best involvement of the people of the city, and the total absence of whatsoever promise of loyalty to the ruler.
  • Dorfl lives this at the terminate of Anxiety of Clay.

    Vimes: What are your duties?
    Dorfl: To Serve The Public Trust, Protect The Innocent, And Seriously Prod Buttock, Sir.

  • A few lines later:

    Nobby: 'S not going to be popular, a golem as a Watchman.
    Dorfl: What Ameliorate Work For One Who Loves Freedom Than The Job Of A Watchman. Law Is The Servant Of Liberty. Liberty Without Limits Is Just A Word.

  • And later, talking most his program to free the golems: "We Are Bought And Sold. So We Will Buy Ourselves Free. By Our Labor. No 1 Else Will Do It For Us. We Will Practise It By Ourselves.
  • This gets reformulated on the fable above the door of the Golem Trust in later books: "By our ain hand, or none."
• The fearsome dwarfish warcry in Feet of Dirt: T'dr'duzk b'hazg t't! (Today is a practiced day for someone else to die!)
• The millennia-old messenger golem Anghammarad remembers a badass version of the A-Thousand Post Office motto from the dawn of time: "Neither Drench Nor Ice Storm Nor The Black Silence Of The Netherhells Shall Stay These Messengers Nigh Their Sacred Business. Do Not Ask Us Near Sabre-Tooth Tigers, Tar Pits, Big Green Things With Teeth Or The Goddess Czol."

  Inevitable question: The Goddess Czol?
  Anghammarad: Do Not Inquire.

• Based on the inscription from Herodotus on the New York Post Office (which isn't an official motto): "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds".
• Tiffany Agonized in Wintersmith: "This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, and so I choose to die. Where this takes me, at that place I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to exercise."

From David Gemmell's Drenai saga:

• The Iron Code of Druss the Fable:
• The Nadir Chant:

  Nadir Nosotros,
  Youth Born,
  Blood Letters,
  Axe Wielders,
  Victors Still.

The song of the hawks in The One time and Future Male monarch:

Life is blood, shed and offered.
The hawkeye's heart can face this dree.
To beasts of chase the lie is proffered:
Timor Mortis (the fearfulness of death) Conturbat Me.

The beast of foot sings Holdfast only,
For flesh is bruckle and foot is slee.
Strength to the potent and the lordly and lonely.
Timor Mortis Exsultat Me.

Shame to the slothful and woe to the weak one,
Death to the dreadful who turn to flee.
Blood to the vehement, the talon'd, the beaked i.
Timor Mortis are Nosotros.

The Second Apocalypse:

• The battle-vocal of the Men of the Tusk.

  A' warring we have come.
  A' reaving we shall piece of work.
  And when the day is done,
  In our eyes the gods shall lurk!

• Also, a theme throughout the series is diverse characters giving their definition of warfare. "State of war is strength." "War is intellect." etc. Kellhus somewhen settles on "State of war is confidence."

The creed of the Raven, from both the Chronicles of the Raven and the Legends of the Raven

"Kill simply never murder."

From Young Wizards:

• The Wizard's Adjuration:

  In Life's name and for Life'southward sake, I say that I volition use the Art for nil but the service of that Life. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its ain fashion; and I volition change no object or fauna unless its growth and life, or that of the organization of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I volition put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when information technology is correct to do so — till Universe'southward end.

• The version of the Oath for saurian wizards:

  The Fire is at the heart, and the Burn is the centre; for its sake, all fires any are sacred to me. I shall kindle them modest and safe where at that place are none, for the wayfinding of those who come afterward: I will exhale on those fires most to die in dark places, and in passing, feed those that fire without harm to any; the fire that burns and warms those who assemble about information technology, in no wise shall I meddle with information technology save that it seems virtually to consume its confocals, or to dice. To these ends, as the Kindling requireth, I shall ever thrust my claw into the flames to shift the darkening ember or feed the declining coal, looking always toward that inmost Hearth from which all flames rise together, and all fires burn undevouring, in and of That Which first set low-cal to the earth, and burns in it ever more than...

• The meditation of the Feline Worldgate Squad:

  I volition meet the cruel and the cowardly today, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will exist all around. Only their numbers and their carelessness practise not mean I accept to be like them. For my own role, I know my job; my committee comes from Those Who Are. My paw raised is Their paw on the neck of the Snake, now and always. I shall walk through Their worlds every bit do the Powers that Exist, seeing and knowing with Them and for Them, disposed Their worlds equally if they were mine: for so indeed they are. Silently shall I strive to become my way, as They do, doing my piece of work unseen; the low-cal needs no reminding by me of expert deeds done by dark. And in this long progress through all that is, though I will know doubt and fear in the strange places where I must walk, I will put these both aside, as the Oath requires, and hold myself to my work ... for if They and I together cannot mend what is marred, who tin? And having done my work aright, though I may know weariness at day'due south terminate, come up enkindling I shall rise up and say again, with Them, as if surprised, "behold, the world is made new ... !"

• And when the Cat-Sorcerer in question is feeling particularly cynical:

  I will meet the terminally clueless today, idiots, and those with hairballs for brains, and those whose ears need a practiced shredding earlier you lot can even go their attention. I practise non have to be like them, even though I would dearly love to hit them difficult enough to brand the empty places in their heads echo ...

The code of The Three Musketeers, which only appears twice in the original story: "One for all and all for one!"

Conan the Barbaric.

• "I accept known many gods. He who denies them is as blind every bit he who trusts them likewise deeply. I seek non beyond death. It may exist the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of water ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer'due south Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; allow me know the rich juices of ruby-red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot comprehend of white arms, the mad exultation of boxing when the blue blades flame and reddish, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, and then I am no less an illusion, and existence thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I beloved, I slay, and am content." From The Queen Of The Blackness Declension.
• "Conan, what is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before y'all, and hear the lamentations of their women." From the movie.
  • From Genghis Khan.

The Lord of the Rings:

• The Rohirrim go a few, which makes sense:

  ''Ascend, arise, Riders of Théoden!

  Brutal deeds awake, burn and slaughter!

  spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,

  a sword-day, a blood-red day, ere the lord's day rises!

  Ride at present, ride now! Ride to Gondor!''

  Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!

  ''Out of nighttime, out of doubt, to the day's rise

  I rode, singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.

  To hope's end I rode, and to middle's breaking,

• Don't forget Sam in Minas Morgul:

  Though here at journeying'south end I lie

  Across all towers strong and high,

  Beyond all mountains steep.

  Above all shadows rides the Dominicus,

  And stars forever dwell

  I volition not say this day is done,

  Nor bid the stars farewell.

• Then there's the Oath of Fëanor:

  Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean
  Brood of Morgoth or bright Vala,
  Elda or Maia or Aftercomer,
  Homo yet unborn upon Centre-world,
  Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords,
  Dread nor danger, not Doom itself
  Shall defend him from Fëanáro, and Fëanáro's kin,
  Whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in mitt taketh,
  Finding keepeth or afar casteth
  A Silmaril. This swear we all...
  Death we will deal him ere 24-hour interval's ending,
  Woe unto world'due south cease! Our give-and-take hear 1000,
  Eru Allfather! To the everlasting
  Darkness doom usa if our deed faileth...
  On the holy mountain hear in witness
  and our vow call back,
  Manwë and Varda!

From David Weber'due south Hell's Gate series. Translated, it ways "I am your son/daughter, Halian. I remember." Anytime a Calirath says this, they're almost to make a Heroic Sacrifice, and they're not letting anyone talk them out of it.

"Chunika/Chanaka southward'hari, Halian. Sho warak."

S.Grand. Stirling's Emberverse:

• The Clan MacKenzie's battle chant:

  Nosotros are the signal!

  We are the edge!

  We are the wolves

  That Hecate fed!

  We are the bow!

  We are the shaft!

  Nosotros are the bolts

  That Hecate cast!

• Not as poetic merely to the bespeak and definitely badass, the warcry of House Gervais:

  Face Gervais, face Death!

• Also the Bearkillers battle cry, "hakkaa päälle!", translated from the Finnish: "Cut them downwards!"

From 1984:

War IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

The Bible:

• "I Am that I Am."
• Psalms 144:1-2 "Blest be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight: My goodness, and my fortress: my loftier tower, and my deliverer: my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people nether me.
• This creed might not seem all that badass at present, but picture what it must have been like 2000 years ago: "You accept heard the law that says, 'Love your neighbor' and hate your enemy. Just I say, honey your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!"

From W. E. Henley: Invictus

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the whorl.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Madeleine L'Engle'south A Swiftly Tilting Planet adapts a portion of "St. Patrick's Breastplate" for utilise as a Badass Creed:

At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brightness,
And the snow with its whiteness,
And the fire with all the force it hath,
And the lightning with its rapid wrath,
And the winds with their swiftness forth their path,
And the sea with its deepness,
And the rocks with their steepness,
And the earth with its starkness,
All these I place
Past God'due south omnipotent aid and grace
Between myself and the powers of darkness!

Dragonlance The adjuration of the Knights of Solamnia:

Est Sularus Oth Mithas
My Honor Is My Life

The Road of Kings a poem written by Robert E. Howard that tells things from Conan'due south perspective after he becomes rex of Aquilonia.

Gleaming trounce of an outworn lie, legend of Correct Divine.

You gained your crowns past heritage, but Claret was the price of mine.

The throne that I won past blood and sweat, by Crom, I volition not sell

For hope of valleys filled with gilded or threat of the Halls of Hell!

When I was a fighting man, the kettle-drums they beat.

The people scattered gold grit before my horse'due south feet.

But at present I am a great king; the people hound my track,

With poison in my wine loving cup, and daggers at my back.

What do I know of cultured ways; the gold, the craft and the prevarication?

I, who was built-in in a naked land, and bred in the open up sky?

The subtle tongue, the sophist guile; they fail when the broadswords sing.

Rush in and die, dogs — I was a man before I was a rex!

The Outset Horn (Heavy Infantry) form Richard Schwartz's series Das Geheimnis von Askir (translated):

Who are we?

The offset horn of the balderdash!

What are we?

Steadfast!

Where practise we stand?

On the ground from which nosotros will not retreat!

Where practise we go?

To the gods, with Askir, the emperor, our honour and our duty!

The Draka

Service to the Land. Glory to the Race.

The Dark Angel Trilogy:

• Get-go:

  Durzo Blint: Life is null in itself. It'southward a place marker that proves who's winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. At that place is nix but the winning. Even winning means cypher. We win because it's an insult to lose.

• And that'due south non even the real creed. The true creed of the Night Angels goes as follows:

  I am Sa'kage, a lord of shadows.
  I claim the shadows so that the Shadow may not.
  I am the strong arm of deliverance.
  I am Shadowstrider.
  I am the Scales of Justice.
  I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen.
  I am Shadowslayer.
  I am Nameless.
  The coranti shall non go unpunished.
  My way is difficult, only I serve unbroken.
  In ignobility, nobility.
  In shame, honor.
  In darkness, light.
  I volition do justice and honey mercy.
  Until the king returns, I shall not lay my brunt down.

From The Simple Fine art of Murder by Raymond Chandler

...down these mean streets a man must go who is non himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must exist a complete homo and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must exist, to employ a rather weathered phrase, a human being of accolade—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of information technology, and certainly without saying information technology. He must be the best man in his world and a expert enough human being for any world.

Tennyson:

• "Sir Gallahad":

  My good blade carves the casques of men,
  My tough lance thrusteth sure,
  My strength is as the forcefulness of 10,
  Because my middle is pure.

• Tennyson again, "Ulysses"

  Though much is taken, much abides; and though
  We are not now that strength which in old days
  Moved globe and heaven; that which we are, nosotros are;
  One equal temper of heroic hearts,
  Made weak past time and fate, but strong in will
  To strive, to seek, to discover, and not to yield.

• And again, in "The Accuse of the Light Brigade"

  Theirs not to make answer
  Theirs not to reason why
  Theirs but to do and dice

"Ode" past Arthur O'Shaughnessy.

The Sparrow:

• "Nosotros are many. They are few."
• Even prior to this, Sofia'southward internal mantra of "I am Mendes", in reference to her Sephardic family'south history of endurance as well as her own.

Keith Laumer:

• The dying words of many an heroic Bolo accept been the Dinochrome Brigade'southward motto, "For the Honor of the Regiment!"
• I particular sub-control of the Dinochrome Brigade has a Pretentious Latin Motto that doubles as a creed for the Bolos and a challenge to their enemies; translated, information technology simply says Stand and be judged.
• From the same story, the Bolos in particular are units DBC and DBQ, nicknamed 'Chains' and 'Quarter' respectively. What does the DB stand for, you lot ask?

  Colonel Ishida: Death By Chains.
  Unit DBC: So judged.

From the novella A Dry, Quiet State of war, past Tony Daniels:

They sucked down my heart

to a little blackness pigsty

They wrote down my brain

on a hard knot of space,

Icicle fasten

from the eye of a star

I've come to kill you.

Rudyard Kipling:

• His poem "The Overland Mail service" shows that native postmen in India were badass. The verse form specifically states he's doing all this at night ... in the jungle ... uphill :

  Is the torrent in spate? He must ford it or swim.
  Has the rain wrecked the road? He must climb by the cliff.
  Does the storm weep halt? What are tempests to him?
  The service admits not a "but" or an "if."
  While the jiff's in his mouth, he must bear without fail,
  In the Name of the Empress, the Overland Mail.

• His verse form "If" is a Badass Creed in instructional format. Read information technology.
• Also, the "Police of the Jungle", which starts:

  Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as sometime and as true as the sky;
  And the Wolf that shall go along it may prosper, only the Wolf that shall break information technology must die.
  As the creeper that girdles the tree-torso the Police runneth forward and back —
  For the force of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

• And from The Sons of Martha

  They practice not preach that their God will rouse them a piffling before the nuts work loose.
  They do non teach that His pity allows them to leave their work when they damn well chose.
  As in the thronged and the lighted ways, so in the nighttime and the desert they stand,
  wary and watchful all of their days, that their brethren's days may be long in the land.

In The Stormlight Archive, the Knights Radiant have oaths (called Ethics) that correspond their bonds to their spren, and grant them their powers. The exact diction of the oaths may vary from person to person merely the meaning backside them is consistent.

• The first is the same for every Order:
• The 2nd Ideal of the Windrunners:
• The Tertiary Ideal of the Windrunners:
• The 4th Ideal of the Windrunners:
• The 2d Platonic of the Skybreakers:

  I will put the law before all else.

• The 2nd Ideal of the Edgedancers:

  I volition remember those who take been forgotten.

• The Third Ideal of the Edgedancers:

  I volition listen to those who accept been ignored.

• Lightweavers make no oaths beyond the start, and only need to speak truths (especially about themselves) to advance.
• The Second Ideal of the Bondsmiths:

  I volition unite instead of divide. I will bring men together.

• The Tertiary Ideal of the Bondsmiths
• The Second Ideal of the Willshapers:

  I will seek liberty.

Malazan Volume of the Fallen:

• The Bridgeburners keep it uncomplicated:

  Get-go in, terminal out.

• The Bridgeburners' creed is then parodied past the Bonehunters, who self-deprecatingly repurpose information technology for themselves as:

  Last in, looking around.

In A Civil Campaign, Aral Vorkosigan gives this denoting life advice to his son Miles:

Baby-sit your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

John Carter of Mars:

• John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, is fond of defying his opponents with: "I nonetheless alive!" (Also counts equally a Survival Mantra)
• There's also the ofttimes-repeated Thark motto: "Leave to a Thark his head and one paw, and he may all the same prevail"

RiverClan fish! RiverClan swim! RiverClan warriors use h2o to win!

Elric of Melnibone'south battlecry; "Blood and souls! Blood and souls for my Lord Arioch!"

From The Last Hero, a poem by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The whole poem is ane long Badass Boast, but the third stanza is the biggie:

Harry Dresden has several:

The world is getting weirder. Darker every single solar day. Things are spinning effectually faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The centre cannot hold.
Merely in my corner of the country, I'm trying to nail things down. [...] I don't desire to alive in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a footling quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges, and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries heed their p's and q's.
My proper noun is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things become strange, when what goes bump in the dark flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.

The motto of Clan Korval keeps it brusk:

I Dare

"I was made for Abhorsen to slay those already expressionless. The Clayr saw me. The Wallmaker made me. Abhorsen wields me and then that no Dead my walk in life, for this is not their path."

The Lurid incarnation of The Shadow had "The weed of crime bears biting fruit. The Shadow never fails", in add-on to the Radio Shadow's "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"

Two of them in The Truth of Rock and Roll: "Information technology's about rockin', not remembering" and "That's what Stone and Roll really is, you know – beneath all the motorcycles and cars and leather jackets – it's about being young and being brave. Immature leaves us all, but y'all accept to let Dauntless go of your own complimentary volition.

The Dauntless manifesto from the extra materials of Divergent.

We believe that peace is difficult-won,

that sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace.

But more than that:

Nosotros believe that justice is more of import than peace.

We believe in liberty from fright, in denying fear the ability to influence our decisions.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for some other.

We believe in acknowledging fear and the extent to which it rules us.

We believe in facing that fright no affair what the cost to our comfort, our happiness, or fifty-fifty our sanity.

We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.

We believe, not just in assuming words but in bold deeds to match them.

We believe that pain and death are meliorate than cowardice and inaction because

Nosotros practice not believe in living comfortable lives.

Nosotros do not believe that silence is useful.

Nosotros do not believe in good manners.

We practice not believe in empty heads, empty mouths, or empty easily.

We do not believe that learning to master violence encourages unnecessary violence.

We do non believe that we should exist immune to stand idly by.

We do not believe that any other virtue is more than important than bravery.

The creed used by the agents in Ari Bach'due south Valhalla is elementary yet very effective:

"Don't fuck shit upward."

In The Zombie Knight, the Rainlords of Sair take a motto summing upwards their accept on enemies and danger.

The rain fears non the torch.

• The Sandlords of Sair also have 1.

The sand endures.

From The Grimnoir Chronicles:

I swear before my God and these witnesses that I will stay truthful to the right and practiced, that my magic will exist used to protect, not to enslave, that all my strength and wisdom must ever shield the innocent. I swear to fight for liberty though it toll my life. The Society volition be my blood and its knights my brothers, and that I will always listen the wisdom of the elders' council. I willingly pledge my magic, my noesis, my resources, and my life to uphold these things.

From The Parasol Protectorate:

I shield in the proper noun of fashion. I accessorize for ane and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the not bad parasol.

The Vinchen club from Promise and Red has one of these:

Vengeance is 1 of the most sacred duties of a warrior. Information technology may be swift or wearisome, only information technology must be washed with accolade.

Black Knight Amadeus'southward modernized Legions of Terror in A Applied Guide to Evil:

Wonder Woman: Warbringer: While the Amazons were claimed to have an oath in the original comics, every bit the comics strayed farther and further away from the idea of Amazons as human being women who chose to dedicate themselves to the lifestyle and seclusion of the Amazons the oath never made it into the books. This book decided to take a whack at it:

Sister in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breath, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.

The Mouse Watch:

Every office of a lookout man is important, from the smallest gear on upwards. For without each part working together, keeping time is impossible. Nosotros never sleep. We never fail. We are at that place for all who call upon usa in their time of demand. We are the MOUSE Watch!

Metro: The Spartan Rangers have a very elementary, understated and Russian 1, but but very fitting for the Crapsack World they live in:

If non us, and then who?

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