“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
― Alysha Speer
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
― Billy Graham
“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring
“There are four things you need to know about war. One, every action requires careful tactics. Two, never lose hope and fight only for what is right. Three, be brave but you don't have to be fearless. And four, be willing to sacrifice.”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, Wings of the Wicked
“Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.”
― Cherise Sinclair, Breaking Free
“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
― Bayard Joseph Taylor
“A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.”
― Henry Chancellor, The Forgotten Echo
“Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.”
― Jay Woodman
“Wisdom is knowledge plus courage. You not only have to know what to do and when—but you have to be brave enough to actually act on it.”
― Jarod Kintz, So many chairs, and no time to sit
“Dare to Differ”
― Matthew Goldfinger
“Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.”
― Corey Aaron Burkes
“Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave.”
― The Rescuers
“No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident
“Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.”
― Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will
“When I am brave enough to say goodbye
I'll use the wings you gave me
and away I'll fly”
― Celia Mcmahon
“Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage”
― Shannon L. Alder
“She who is brave is free.”
― Anonymous
“It's not enough to have the feathers.
You must dare to fly!”
― Cass van Krah
“As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, we must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for us... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life — especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is.”
― Roman Payne
“Always do what you're afraid to do.
...
I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick.
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
“Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up.”
― V. Roth
“Better to love and fear than feel nothing.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
“It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.”
― John Connolly, The Infernals
“Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
“If she is to love life and freedom and be brave then she must learn to let go. To see beauty without clinging to it, to feel pain without holding it hostage, and to feel love without worry of losing it.”
― G.G. Renee Hill, The Beautiful Disruption
“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?'
'Of course. Who said it?'
'I don't know.'
'He was probably a coward,' she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child’s hand.”
― Katlyn Charlesworth, Where Men Sit
“There is no such thing as a regrettable act of courage.”
― Tammy Rosenfeld, Sarcasmic: Confessions of an Overthinker
“All the time, circumstances are not going to favor us. We shall have to
face obstacles and adversities. Fearlessness is the first virtue of a hero, the
starting point of all other noble virtues.”
― MS Golwalkar
“To be brave, you have to fight against something that scares you. That's the rule.”
― C.M. Stunich, Craving Me, Desiring You
“I think I'm more curious than I used to be - curious about why people live like they do and how they make sense of their time... Do they see how the sun has made it like a champion around the world overnight, and that all day today we get another chance to be brave, to exercise our humanity with boldness and deft precision?”
― Dee Williams
“Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...”
― Peggy Noonan
“Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one these days you can let the light in
Show me...how BIG your BRAVE is!
-Brave”
― Sara Bareilles
“Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out”
― Sara Bareilles
“Work filled with inspiration is worship.
A heart filled with courage is unbreakable.
A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled.”
― G.G. Renee Hill
“Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Men, we don't need you in shining armor.
We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.”
― Virginia Madsen
“Always live the adventure.”
― Christopher J. Holcroft, Only The Brave Dare
“When life gives you something that makes you feel afraid, that's when life gives you a chance to grow strong and be brave”
― gotmilca.tumblr.com archive
“The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.”
― Joseph Skinner
“Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity!”
― Israelmore Ayivor
“We can't be brave without fear.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
“As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it”
― Anamika Mishra
“She was brave from excess of grief”
― Edith Hamilton
“It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret
“Did I have the courage to forge a path”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything.”
― Rajan Shrestha
“Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.”
― Taylor Swift
“I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
“It’s okay to feel whatever you need to feel. Just promise me that you will never, ever feel guilty. Promise me that you will never blame yourself. It’s not your fault. You’re just a little girl and it’s not your fault that your life is so much harder than it should be. And as much as you’ll want to forget these things ever happened to you and as much as you’ll want to forget this part of your life existed, I need for you to remember.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
“You’re incredibly brave. And you’re going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you’re beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”
― Alanis Morissette
“You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus”
― J. Scott Savage, Water Keep
“Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”
― Harry S. Truman
“She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.”
― Candice Proctor, Night in Eden
“Maka: Your right, Bravery isn't special, because everyone has it.
Asura: So, it's like the madness.”
― Soul Eater
“Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave.”
― Christine Brodien-Jones, The Owl Keeper
“It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”
Omar Bradley quotes
“Fight till the last gasp.”
William Shakespeare quotes
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”
Thucydides
“Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.”
El Cordobes
“There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.”
John Wainwright
“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world” François de la Rochefoucauld
“The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from” Joanna Baillie
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” James Stephens
“There will be more wars until men grow brave enough to stop them”
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly”
Corra Harris
“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.” G. K. Chesterton
“Bravery never goes out of fashion” William Makepeace Thackeray
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. For now you are traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. Meg Cabot
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.- Alexander Pope
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
One man’s courage can move the world.- President Obama
“History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.” Edmund Morris
Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.- Nietzsche
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Seneca
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.- Helen Keller
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C.S. Lewis
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Emerson
One man’s courage can move the world. President Obama
Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. Nietzsche
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. Aesop
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. Napoleon
All bravery stands upon comparisons. Francis Bacon
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem to be, or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Edgar Allan Poe
No one can answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. RochefoucauldThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. G. K. Chesterton
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. Robert Anthony
If we are strong our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. Quote by John F Kennedy
Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage. John F Kennedy
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. Albert Einstein
Brave men go forward not expecting to return. Bona
Life expands or contracts in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
Fortune favors the brave. Unknown
None but the brave deserves the fair. John Drydon
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. ~Dodinsky,
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~Marvin Kitman
Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya
Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. ~Morihei Ueshiba
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little. ~Tori Amos
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins
Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away. ~Dodinsky,
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~Charles Kennedy
I have no fear! what is in store for me
Shall find me self-reliant, undismayed.
God grant my only cowardice may be:
Afraid to be afraid!
~Everard Jack Appleton, quoted in Journal of Education, vol. 81, Boston University, 1915
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Terri Guillemets
Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato
Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton
Courage crawls atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory! ~Terri Guillemets
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler
Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. ~Terri Guillemets
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~Carl Sandburg
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody
“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir
“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
“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
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Life has no victims. There are no victims in this life.
No one has the right to point fingers at his/her past and blame it for what he/she is today. We do not have the right to point our finger at someone else and blame that person for how we treat others, today.
Don’t hide in the corner, pointing fingers at your past. Don’t sit under the table, talking about someone who has hurt you. Instead, stand up and face your past! Face your fears! Face your pain! And stomach it all! You may have to do so kicking and screaming and throwing fits and crying- but by all means- face it!
This life makes no room for cowards.”
― C. JoyBell C., The Sun Is Snowing: Poetry & Prose by C. Joybell C
“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room
“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade
“He who is brave is free”
― Seneca
“When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Being brave is not as easy as it looks.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action.....no matter what. So you're afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.”
― John Patrick Shanley, 13 by Shanley
“The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to do that; and 2. You never know if they are going to throw it away or not. But then you should still do it. Because any other way is cowardice. At the end of the day, it's about being brave and we are only haunted by the ghosts that we trap within ourselves; we are not haunted by the ghosts that we let out. We are haunted by the ghosts that we cover and hide. So you let those ghosts out in that best piece of your heart that you give to someone. And if the other person throws it away? Or doesn't want it to begin with? Someone else will come along one day, cut out from his/her heart that exact same jagged shape that you cut out of your own heart, and make their piece of heart fit into the rest of yours. Wait for that person. And you can fill their missing piece with your soul.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...”
― Louisa May Alcott
“Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn't hide. You didn't wait for the perfect moment to settle on you like a butterfly, like magic.
You went out and made magic. Made your own wishes come true.”
― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly
“But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.”
― James Clemens, Hinterland
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.”
― Anna Quindlen
“If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.”
― Jeanette Winterson
“It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)”
― Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
“Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.”
― Pericles
“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.
The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic
“The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped”
― Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
“Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.”
― Emm Cole, Keeping Merminia
“There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.”
― Heather Brewer
“The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart...”
― Aishah Madadiy, Velvet di Durham
“I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong and my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave....If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.”
― David Levithan
“In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen
“I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.”
― Darren Shan, The Thin Executioner
Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?”
― Barbara Hillary
“You, sir, are not only a selfish asshole, but you're a coward. You didn't have the balls to stand and fight for what was yours, instead you chose to flee and force others into a fight that wasn't even theirs to begin with.”
― Rose Wynters, My Wolf Cowboy
“Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
“Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March
“What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.'
And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.”
― Veronica Roth
“There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.”
― David Gemmell, Dark Moon
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
“Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?"
Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall
“Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.”
― Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room
“Anyone can be brave for five minutes or an hour or two. The bravery no one talks about is the hardest bravery of all. When you get up in the morning even though you'd rather be dead, that's brave.”
― Carys Bray, A Song for Issy Bradley
“Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
A balanced life isn’t to do as we please, but to learn to do what is right. A person that is truly free in life doesn’t try to balance the good and evil inside him. He fearlessly fights the war between his heart and mind, by choosing one path of standards to live by that will end suffering for himself and others.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.”
― Lana Del Rey
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
― Roman Payne
“I think it's the bravest thing in the world - to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt.”
― Emery Lord, Open Road Summer
“She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.”
― Brené Brown
“maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear”
― Veronica Roth, The Son
“It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.”
― Pax Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
“I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.
And living is different with surviving.”
― Audrey Celia
“Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.”
― Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
― Alysha Speer
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
― Billy Graham
“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring
“There are four things you need to know about war. One, every action requires careful tactics. Two, never lose hope and fight only for what is right. Three, be brave but you don't have to be fearless. And four, be willing to sacrifice.”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, Wings of the Wicked
“Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.”
― Cherise Sinclair, Breaking Free
“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
― Bayard Joseph Taylor
“A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.”
― Henry Chancellor, The Forgotten Echo
“Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.”
― Jay Woodman
“Wisdom is knowledge plus courage. You not only have to know what to do and when—but you have to be brave enough to actually act on it.”
― Jarod Kintz, So many chairs, and no time to sit
“Dare to Differ”
― Matthew Goldfinger
“Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.”
― Corey Aaron Burkes
“Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave.”
― The Rescuers
“No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident
“Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.”
― Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will
“When I am brave enough to say goodbye
I'll use the wings you gave me
and away I'll fly”
― Celia Mcmahon
“Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage”
― Shannon L. Alder
“She who is brave is free.”
― Anonymous
“It's not enough to have the feathers.
You must dare to fly!”
― Cass van Krah
“As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, we must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for us... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life — especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is.”
― Roman Payne
“Always do what you're afraid to do.
...
I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick.
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
“Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up.”
― V. Roth
“Better to love and fear than feel nothing.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
“It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.”
― John Connolly, The Infernals
“Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
“If she is to love life and freedom and be brave then she must learn to let go. To see beauty without clinging to it, to feel pain without holding it hostage, and to feel love without worry of losing it.”
― G.G. Renee Hill, The Beautiful Disruption
“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?'
'Of course. Who said it?'
'I don't know.'
'He was probably a coward,' she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child’s hand.”
― Katlyn Charlesworth, Where Men Sit
“There is no such thing as a regrettable act of courage.”
― Tammy Rosenfeld, Sarcasmic: Confessions of an Overthinker
“All the time, circumstances are not going to favor us. We shall have to
face obstacles and adversities. Fearlessness is the first virtue of a hero, the
starting point of all other noble virtues.”
― MS Golwalkar
“To be brave, you have to fight against something that scares you. That's the rule.”
― C.M. Stunich, Craving Me, Desiring You
“I think I'm more curious than I used to be - curious about why people live like they do and how they make sense of their time... Do they see how the sun has made it like a champion around the world overnight, and that all day today we get another chance to be brave, to exercise our humanity with boldness and deft precision?”
― Dee Williams
“Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...”
― Peggy Noonan
“Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one these days you can let the light in
Show me...how BIG your BRAVE is!
-Brave”
― Sara Bareilles
“Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out”
― Sara Bareilles
“Work filled with inspiration is worship.
A heart filled with courage is unbreakable.
A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled.”
― G.G. Renee Hill
“Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Men, we don't need you in shining armor.
We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.”
― Virginia Madsen
“Always live the adventure.”
― Christopher J. Holcroft, Only The Brave Dare
“When life gives you something that makes you feel afraid, that's when life gives you a chance to grow strong and be brave”
― gotmilca.tumblr.com archive
“The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.”
― Joseph Skinner
“Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity!”
― Israelmore Ayivor
“We can't be brave without fear.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
“As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it”
― Anamika Mishra
“She was brave from excess of grief”
― Edith Hamilton
“It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret
“Did I have the courage to forge a path”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything.”
― Rajan Shrestha
“Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.”
― Taylor Swift
“I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
“It’s okay to feel whatever you need to feel. Just promise me that you will never, ever feel guilty. Promise me that you will never blame yourself. It’s not your fault. You’re just a little girl and it’s not your fault that your life is so much harder than it should be. And as much as you’ll want to forget these things ever happened to you and as much as you’ll want to forget this part of your life existed, I need for you to remember.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
“You’re incredibly brave. And you’re going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you’re beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”
― Alanis Morissette
“You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus”
― J. Scott Savage, Water Keep
“Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”
― Harry S. Truman
“She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.”
― Candice Proctor, Night in Eden
“Maka: Your right, Bravery isn't special, because everyone has it.
Asura: So, it's like the madness.”
― Soul Eater
“Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave.”
― Christine Brodien-Jones, The Owl Keeper
“It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
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“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”
Omar Bradley quotes “Fight till the last gasp.”
William Shakespeare quotes “The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”
Thucydides “Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.”
El Cordobes “There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.”
John Wainwright “True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world”
François de la Rochefoucauld “The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from”
Joanna Baillie“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
James Stephens“There will be more wars until men grow brave enough to stop them”
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly”
Corra Harris “Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”
G. K. Chesterton “Bravery never goes out of fashion”
William Makepeace Thackeray “Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. For now you are traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be.
Meg Cabot A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.- Alexander Pope
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
One man’s courage can move the world.- President Obama
“History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.”
Edmund Morris Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.- Nietzsche
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Seneca
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.- Helen Keller
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C.S. Lewis
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Emerson
One man’s courage can move the world. President Obama
Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. Nietzsche
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. Aesop
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. Napoleon
All bravery stands upon comparisons. Francis Bacon
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem to be, or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Edgar Allan Poe
No one can answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. RochefoucauldThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. G. K. Chesterton
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. Robert Anthony
If we are strong our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. Quote by John F Kennedy
Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage. John F Kennedy
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. Albert Einstein
Brave men go forward not expecting to return. Bona
Life expands or contracts in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
Fortune favors the brave. Unknown
Fear can keep a man out of danger but courage only can support him in it. Thomas Fuller
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. Havelock Ellis
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
I
feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my
peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
Bravery and courage involve
the ability to undertake challenges. While these traits tend to be
associated with physical fortitude, they can also be required of those
who are forced to endure inner travail and turmoil.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. ~Dodinsky,
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~Marvin Kitman
Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya
Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. ~Morihei Ueshiba
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little. ~Tori Amos
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins
Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away. ~Dodinsky,
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~Charles Kennedy
I have no fear! what is in store for me
Shall find me self-reliant, undismayed.
God grant my only cowardice may be:
Afraid to be afraid!
~Everard Jack Appleton, quoted in Journal of Education, vol. 81, Boston University, 1915
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Terri Guillemets
Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato
Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton
Courage crawls atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory! ~Terri Guillemets
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler
Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. ~Terri Guillemets
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~Carl Sandburg
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody
“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir
“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
“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
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Life has no victims. There are no victims in this life.
No one has the right to point fingers at his/her past and blame it for what he/she is today. We do not have the right to point our finger at someone else and blame that person for how we treat others, today.
Don’t hide in the corner, pointing fingers at your past. Don’t sit under the table, talking about someone who has hurt you. Instead, stand up and face your past! Face your fears! Face your pain! And stomach it all! You may have to do so kicking and screaming and throwing fits and crying- but by all means- face it!
This life makes no room for cowards.”
― C. JoyBell C., The Sun Is Snowing: Poetry & Prose by C. Joybell C
“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room
“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade
“He who is brave is free”
― Seneca
“When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Being brave is not as easy as it looks.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action.....no matter what. So you're afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.”
― John Patrick Shanley, 13 by Shanley
“The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to do that; and 2. You never know if they are going to throw it away or not. But then you should still do it. Because any other way is cowardice. At the end of the day, it's about being brave and we are only haunted by the ghosts that we trap within ourselves; we are not haunted by the ghosts that we let out. We are haunted by the ghosts that we cover and hide. So you let those ghosts out in that best piece of your heart that you give to someone. And if the other person throws it away? Or doesn't want it to begin with? Someone else will come along one day, cut out from his/her heart that exact same jagged shape that you cut out of your own heart, and make their piece of heart fit into the rest of yours. Wait for that person. And you can fill their missing piece with your soul.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...”
― Louisa May Alcott
“Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn't hide. You didn't wait for the perfect moment to settle on you like a butterfly, like magic.
You went out and made magic. Made your own wishes come true.”
― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly
“But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.”
― James Clemens, Hinterland
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.”
― Anna Quindlen
“If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.”
― Jeanette Winterson
“It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)”
― Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
“Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.”
― Pericles
“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.
The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic
“The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped”
― Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
“Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.”
― Emm Cole, Keeping Merminia
“There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.”
― Heather Brewer
“The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart...”
― Aishah Madadiy, Velvet di Durham
“I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong and my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave....If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.”
― David Levithan
“In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen
“I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.”
― Darren Shan, The Thin Executioner
Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?”
― Barbara Hillary
“You, sir, are not only a selfish asshole, but you're a coward. You didn't have the balls to stand and fight for what was yours, instead you chose to flee and force others into a fight that wasn't even theirs to begin with.”
― Rose Wynters, My Wolf Cowboy
“Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
“Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March
“What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.'
And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.”
― Veronica Roth
“There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.”
― David Gemmell, Dark Moon
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
“Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?"
Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall
“Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.”
― Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room
“Anyone can be brave for five minutes or an hour or two. The bravery no one talks about is the hardest bravery of all. When you get up in the morning even though you'd rather be dead, that's brave.”
― Carys Bray, A Song for Issy Bradley
“Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
A balanced life isn’t to do as we please, but to learn to do what is right. A person that is truly free in life doesn’t try to balance the good and evil inside him. He fearlessly fights the war between his heart and mind, by choosing one path of standards to live by that will end suffering for himself and others.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.”
― Lana Del Rey
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
― Roman Payne
“I think it's the bravest thing in the world - to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt.”
― Emery Lord, Open Road Summer
“She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.”
― Brené Brown
“maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear”
― Veronica Roth, The Son
“It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.”
― Pax Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
“I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.
And living is different with surviving.”
― Audrey Celia
“Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.”
― Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
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