Brave Quotes

Those who cannot cope with difficulties often fail to achieve their aims in life.

~ Shuanglin Lin

My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.

~ Veronica Roth

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

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

~ Brian Jacques

Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.

~ Kimberly Novosel

Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me.Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window.Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy...

~ Catherine Fisher

I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.

~ Sara Quin

I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

~ Felicia Day

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

~ Anna Deavere Smith

Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

~ Robin S. Sharma

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

~ Lucille Ball

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

~ Hillary Clinton

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

~ Thucydides

This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.

~ Joe Scarborough

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

~ Maya Angelou

Fortune and love favor the brave.

~ Ovid

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

~ Charles Dickens

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

~ Leslie Jones

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

~ Helen Keller

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

~ Phil Lord

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

~ Jewel

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

~ Tom Chatfield

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

~ Curt Weldon

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

~ Jim Gerlach

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

~ David Morrissey

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

~ Earl Derr Biggers

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.

~ Susan Orlean

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

~ Paulo Coelho

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

~ Bear Grylls

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

~ Georges Bernanos

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

~ Melissa Bean

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

~ Billy Graham

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

~ Horace

He who is brave is free.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

~ Charles Caleb Colton