- “I’m alive and still standing, moving on my own two feet… However far I fall, as long as there is so much of a thread left to me I’ll use it to climb. I’ll take hold of it and refuse to give up. I’m still human, I can do that much.” Ciel Phantomhive, Black Butler
- “Don’t be sorry, be better.” Joan Watson, Elementary
- “I’m past patiently waiting – I’m passionately smashing every expectation. Every action’s an act of creation!” Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton
- “We don’t want to kill you. But we will.” Natasha Romanov, The Avengers: Infinity War
- “I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day… This day, we fight!” Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings
- “I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.” The Doctor, Doctor Who
- “I’m beyond tired. I’m beyond scared. I’m standing on the mouth of hell and it’s gonna swallow me whole. And it’ll choke on me.” Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- “I’ll keep fighting, I’ll keep swinging ’til I got nothing left.” Dean Winchester, Supernatural
- “Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people…better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.” Mal Reynolds, Serenity
- “No such thing as fair… If I’m going to burn, it might as well be bright.” Frank Zhang, The Son of Neptune
- “I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.” Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
- “Maybe it’s enough that the world thinks I’m a hero. Maybe if I try long and hard, maybe I can fool myself.” Jessica Jones, Jessica Jones
- “Let’s value our lives.” L Lawliet, Death Note
- “And I know I’m asking a lot. The price of freedom is high, it always has been. And it’s a price I’m willing to pay. And if I’m the only one, then so be it. But I’m willing to bet I’m not.” Steve Rogers, Captain America: Winter Soldier
- “My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.” Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
- “We’re all going to keep fighting,” Neville Longbottom, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- “Now I know, that only love can truly save the world. So I stay, I fight, and I give, for the world I know can be.” Diana, Wonder Woman
- “I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble.” Katniss Everdeen, Catching Fire
- “I know you’re scared, this… This is scary! But we can do this. And you’re going to come away from this fight with some kick-ass stories about this day. Those things over there, for a century, we have watched them take what they want to take, consume the worlds that they want to consume. That. Stops. Here!” Lup, The Adventure Zone
- “If you have time to complain, you have time to act.” Piccolo, Dragon Ball Z
- “Nothing in this universe happens just once. Infinity goes in both directions. There is no unique event, no singular moment.” Temperance Brennan, Bones
- “Eyes closed, head first, can’t lose!” Jake Peralta, Brooklyn 99
- “I don’t belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don’t belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the fringe. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me – they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.” Tris Prior, Allegiant
- “You’re awesome! Be nicer to yourself.” Jason Mendoza, The Good Place
- “Not today.” Arya Stark, A Song of Ice and Fire
Jessica Seymour 