Bravery Quotes

Bravery shared doesn't act like bravado among her own.

~ Linda Robinson

When the Guard convinced you fate was not on our side, you parted ways with me and saw fit to make me suffer,' Percy stated. The pain on Alexi's face worsened, and he opened his mouth to refute her. She put her hands lovingly on his cheeks. 'We survived. Our love survived. And we shall again.'He stared at her in wonder. 'How did my dear girl grow so brave?'Percy grinned. 'Didn't you hear? The meek shall inherit the earth.

~ Leanna Renee Hieber

Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)

~ Geraldine Brooks

I looked at the faces around me, wondering what was going to happen to me ... wondering when I would see Father again.I will help you.

~ M.l. Legette

But what's braver?' Emmanuel said. 'Naming the bigots and possibly being killed for it? Or living in silence in order to protect yourself and those you love?' I think bravery had more to do with making the choice and less to do with the choice it self. In that situation, bravery was both living and dying.

~ Janelle Gray

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

~ Johanna Sinisalo

I read once, and I wished I could remember where, that Brave was a place. You could just go there if you wanted. There were dozens of Braves, everywhere, all over the world, where ordinary people stood up to tyranny and oppression.

~ Katherine Locke

We are the eyes in the darkness

~ Mladen Đorđević

I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

As we pretend to be brave, we become so.

~ Pierce Brown

When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

~ John Le Carré

Bravery breaks barriers! You were not born to be mediocre! Put on courage and conquer! Don’t forget, however, never ever to go without true humility in all your endeavors!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

...bravery often demands a price.

~ Lemony Snicket

Why should we isolate people who are brave enough to try to become like us--who want to help people? Why should we treat them as if they're less than us, until they prove their worthiness or die? I won't do it.

~ Cassandra Clare

When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awake watching the snow fall outside and came up with this: how brave a thing it was for him to try to rediscover something, even if it was only himself, not a continent.

~ Peter Geye

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

~ Rafael Sabatini

I don't want my life to not be the way I expected.I may not be scared of crowds. Or the dark. Or small spaces. But I am afraid. I am afraid of responsibility; I am afraid of not living up to expectations, of the changing future, of growing up, not knowing, sex, relationships, hardship, secrets, grades, judgement, falling short, loneliness, change, confusion, arguments, curiosity, love, hate, losing, pressure, differences, honesty, lies.I am afraid of me.Yet, despite this, I know I am brave. I know I am brave because I've accepted my invisible fears and haven't let them overcome me.I want you to know that you're brave because you know your fears. You're brave because you introduced yourself. You're brave because you said 'No, I don't understand.' You're brave because you are here.

~ Emily Trunko

Bravery is never measured by the magnitude of the actions, but rather by the choices made.

~ K.b. Ezzell

Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can understand their peril.Thorn waited. Fearless as flowers, bright, fragile, open to the sky. Brave, as only those who’ve already lost can be.

~ Mark Lawrence

I know this is scary. You're hungry and cold and you want to give up! But you can't turn on each other! Not now! Show me how brave you can be by pulling together! Do it for each other! That's the trick! Because when you reach out--when you extend yourself for other people-- that's when you're without fear!

~ Mark Waid

I am so brave with love and yet, so weak.

~ N.r.hart

Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.

~ Cath Crowley

Dying in one’s fourth decade is unusual now, but dying is not. “The thing about lung cancer is that it’s not exotic,” Paul wrote in an email to his best friend, Robin. “The reader can get into these shoes, walk a bit, and say, ‘So that’s what it looks like from here. Sooner or later, I’ll be back here in my own shoes.’ That’s what I’m aiming for, I think. Not the sensationalism of dying and not the exhortations to gather rosebuds but: Here’s what lies up ahead on the road.” Of course, he did more than just describe the terrain. He traversed it bravely.

~ Paul Kalanithi

I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

We don't need you to make us feel safe, Jake. Because you made us feel brave. And that's even better.

~ Emma

No matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down, starting from one end.

~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.

~ Katherine Rundell

There are lots of people out there who are terribly hateful. She could avoid a whole lot of trouble and dress and act as they want her to, but she chooses to be herself. That's brave. Also - the last time we met she stopped Jackaby from hurting the men who hurt her. They might have killed her. Kindness is an act of bravery. I think, just as hatred is an act of fear. I'm sure can appreciate that not all strength is muscle, Mr. Finstern. She has a strong spirit, and I believe she is brave about the way she chooses to use it.

~ William Ritter

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.

~ Garth Nix

Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.

~ Haruki Murakami

Every day since waking up in the hospital I've wanted to die, but watching that man sink below the waves, I feel something inside me rise up. A Dragon doesn't surrender. A Dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels more like someone blew on an ember and found a slight orang glow. I have to hang on to my life—however ruined and useless. Mama's voice comes floating to me, reciting one of her favorite sayings, There is no catastrophe except death; one cannot be poorer than a beggar. I want—need—to do something braver and finer than dying.

~ Lisa See

And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coraline to the cat. ‘It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave.’‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave

~ Neil Gaiman

I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave.

~ S.d. Smith

Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...

~ J.k. Rowling

You're all so busy trying to be tough that you've forgotten how to be brave.

~ K. Towne Jr.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.

~ Kwame Alexander

He was mad and plenty brave.

~ Ernest Hemingway

A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

~ Stephen King