Bravery Quotes

You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.

~ Margaret George

Perhaps there is something good that had come from this war: everything has been turned around, all the unfairness made grimly plain. It has given us everyday women a voice - dared us to stand up for ourselves, and to stand up for others. We have less to lose in this world of chaos and death, after all.

~ Jennifer Ryan

It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

~ Kristin Hannah

It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

~ Tim O'brien

In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.

~ Shatrujeet Nath

Yet I now ask of you—are you marauders or are you servants? Do you give power to others, or do you hoard it? Do you fight not to have something, but rather fight so that others might one day have something? Is your blade a part of your soul, or is it a burden, a tool, to be used with care? Are you soldiers, my children, or are you savages?

~ Robert Jackson Bennett

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

~ Erma Bombeck

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

~ Roman Payne

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no freedom without bravery.

~ Ben Carson

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.

~ Leon Uris

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

~ Mike Norton

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

~ Lawrence Hill

But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.

~ Jessica Sorensen

How bittersweet is it to realize that we are the creators of our realities and that we have allowed others to do the creating for us for so many years? So much time wasted…so much guilt, regret and bitterness. It can be easier to numb that pain than face it. Yet once we face our pain and take responsibility, we gain the freedom to move forward and unleash our Divine Potential. We also gain the freedom to move forward and respond to life with Divinity; thus, we alter the very fabric of the collective realities experienced on our planet.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The thought of talking about it made Pueblo's gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy had been through – not that she'd told him her version yet. She had balls of steel, he thought with a smile. And what did he have? Three pairs of loin cloths going crisp on the radiator.

~ Dianna Hardy

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

~ Tariq Ali

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

...you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you are failing. It calms them. That's why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves worrying about Amanda Bynes.

~ Mindy Kaling

How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’‘No, you are gentle and soft.’‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’‘Like snake?’‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’‘No, you are gentle and soft.’‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’‘Like a snake?’‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

There is something magical and transformational about saying “yes” to God. When you take His hand, step out of that boat (your ordinary, comfortable life), and be brave. Instead of spending your lifetime living in fear and playing it safe, you boldly walk in obedience. God makes you brave.

~ Dana Arcuri

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

~ Neil Gaiman

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

~ Susan Sontag

You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.

~ Tiffany Winfree

Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true.

~ Natalie Lloyd

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

~ Drew Barrymore

You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.

~ Amit Ray

Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

~ Stephen King

Why seek help when you can become the help! Why wish for miracle when you can become the miracle! You are a God O brave-heart – never forget that. Have faith – not in an imaginary monkey up there – but in the powers vested in you by Mother Nature.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Be Gods and make Gods.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have sacrificed themselves in the past. And in this pursuit, countless more shall need to sacrifice themselves.

~ Abhijit Naskar