Bravery Quotes

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

~ Aspen Matis

Ordinary points of bravery, the synchronistic moments we all engage in, and the transformative power of minding our voices, forgiving, trusting, and learning to love ourselves and our lives, while we wait.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

Look to the past with wisdom, and look to the future with courage.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Have the courage that you will trample over your I'll struggles of the past till all is settled for your celebrations. You will be victorious in the face of difficulties if only give are courageous!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes 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

It was a brave old world.

~ Mark A. Rayner

In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand...

~ Seja Majeed

Put all your pain on a piece of paper, write it all down, every experience, every ache, every hurtful moment. Then take a match, and set fire to that piece of paper. All the hurt you have inside you is burning just as it burnt inside of you, until it is completely gone. From this moment forward you are free. Nothing can harm you. No past. No present. No future. You are reborn into water, and nothing in the entirety of this world can set fire to water, nor crush it. Whatever pressures you face, you will float. Whatever tries to sink you, you will rise up. Today, right now, in this moment, you are a warrior. Now smile, it will set fire to those who sought to burn you...

~ Seja Majeed

Some people are lucky to find love, others must settle with being liked...

~ Seja Majeed

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

~ Veronica Roth

Courage is found in unlikely places.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

~ Mark Twain

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

~ John Wayne

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

~ Maya Angelou

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Bravery hides in amazing places.

~ Kiera Cass

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

~ Madeleine L'engle

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

~ A.a. Milne

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

~ Criss Jami

Courage only counts when you can count.

~ Suzanne Collins

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

~ Amy Engel

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

What worries you, masters you.

~ John Locke

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough.We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

~ Alistair Maclean

One man with courage makes a majority.

~ Andrew Jackson

Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.

~ Katherine Rundell

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

Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.

~ C. Joybell C.

And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

~ C.j. Redwine

He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has.It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling.He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it.

~ Rachel Hartman

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

~ Pat Conroy

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

~ Steven J. Carroll

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.

~ Jim Butcher

I'd like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside.

~ Katie Mcgarry