Bravery Quotes

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down

~ Tom Petty

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

~ Louisa May Alcott

Bravery comes one day at a time.

~ Courtney C. Stevens

My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

~ Susan Crandall

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

~ Lorrie Moore

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

~ Rob Sheffield

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

~ Douglas Adams

A man without fear, is a man I strive to be.

~ Geoffrey Brokos

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

Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.

~ Michelle Zink

...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

~ Dave Matthes

The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place that wished to be deceived, and, to this end, he had named himself from a lie in a fairy tale, and created himself--his clothes, his manner, his carriage--as a grand joke.There was a dull pain in his wrists and his feet, and he was finding it harder and harder to breathe. There was nothing more to be gained by feigning unconsciousness, and he raised his head, as best he could, and spat a gob of scarlet blood into Mr. Vandemar's face.It was a brave thing to do, he thought. And a stupid one. Perhaps they would have let him die quietly, if he had not done that. Now, he had no doubt, they would hurt him more. And perhaps his death would come the quicker for it.

~ Neil Gaiman

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped

~ Lauren Oliver

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

~ Ray Bradbury

I have so much respect for the emotionally brave. The ones who put in the emotional work and take the real risks of being vulnerable and removing masks. It's easy to make chitchat, but it's hard to speak about what's really under the surface. It's easy to joke, but difficult to cry. It's easy to numb, but hard to feel.Ironically the real victims of emotional laziness are the people themselves. They end up choosing their emotional comfort zones over happiness. So in the end, they may not be 'uncomfortable' anymore; but they are also miserable.

~ Yasmin Mogahed

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

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

~ Leonard Cohen

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

~ Eric Powell

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

~ George Eliot

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

She was the bravest person I ever knew.

~ Harper Lee

You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.

~ Ilana Waters

My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to arms, I, Ximen Donkey, charged down the ridge and headed straight for the wolf that was tailing my beloved. My hooves kicked up sand and dust as I raced down from my commanding position; no wolf, not even a tiger, could have avoided the spearhead aimed at it. It saw me too late to move out of the way, and I thudded into it, sending it head over heels. Then I turned around and said to my donkey, Do not fear my dear, I am here!

~ Mo Yan

Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart...

~ Aishah Madadiy

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

~ Henry Chancellor

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

~ Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

~ Caterina Sforza

I think I speak for everyone

~ He Says

You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

~ Don Delillo

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

~ C.s. Lewis

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yes, Father. They have the bravest hearts, the noblest souls, and the shiniest armor in all the world.”“Shiniest armor?” repeated King Ban.

~ Gerald Morris

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

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

~ Margaret Mitchell

He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .

~ J.k. Rowling

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

Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up.“Don’t bother,” Esrahaddon told them. “She’s dead, and there’s nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. It—”The two were out the door.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.

~ Pam Bachorz

You know what I know, Mally. Now you must decide what to believe.

~ M.l. Legette