Bravery Quotes

Bravery could only be found inside of fear. So she bore the feeling. After all, it was just a feeling.

~ C.m. Rayne

As she climbed down from the stage, I thought: This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.

~ Leslie Feinberg

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

~ Thomas Browne

I tell you, old friend, I'd rather be stuck here in a Strander burrow than blowing smoke rings in Glipwood, where the Fangs spit and howl and kill our spirits. At least we're here because we choose to be. We're here out of bravery and not cowardice.

~ Andrew Peterson

Cowards never dare to love.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

They were going to drag the boy she loved into the clearing, point a gun at the kindest, bravest person she'd ever met, and end his life with the twitch of a finger.

~ Kass Morgan

Empowered Women 101: Forgive yourself for having chosen to expose yourself to people who don't care about your feelings and help others to do the same. Enjoy life! It is as simple as changing your focus or perspective when you start thinking about people from the past who hurt your feelings. Eventually, you will forget about those types of people because your time and attention will be taken up by more positive things/people/events/activities etc. When you understand how much time is wasted trying to make people see you, understand you, respect you, value you, like you or agree with you...life becomes a pointless negative fight for validation that will drain your happiness. You are worth more than the indifference, inattention or crumbs people throw you. You are a queen that demands respect and God will bring the right person into your life to make you forget why you ever wasted your time on nothing important.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~ The doctor told me something onceshe saidSTOP DRINKINGI slapped her across the face with thisNOI walked right out of that officewent right down to the holeI told the bartenderWHISKEY, MOTHERFUCKERhe poured and he pouredand I slapped my money down on that barthe man I had been driving around withhe just sort of sat there next to this hookershe probably had something rottenway down there between her legsher eyes told of no soulI emptied the bottle down my throatand ordered some chipsthe bartender told meTHEY'RE STALEand I give him a I DON'T FUCKIN' CARE,GIVE ME SOMETHIN'He slid me a ham sandwich dripping with cheap low-fat mayo and saidENJOYI went back to my roomand talked all nightso much conversationit turned the toilet bowl pale

~ Dave Matthes

Bravery in a fictional character is one thing--it's easy to imagine and easy to write. Bravery in real life offers many challenges. We want to believe we will be brave if a situation requires us to. But if we over-think it, we will certainly fail. One simply needs to act toward the best possible result rather than to ponder all of the possibilities.

~ Susan Wingate

Let men position you in the den, God will make you a Daniel in the den. Let men position you to face Goliath, God will make you a David. Let men subject you to undue pressure, torture and pain, blindfold you and lead you into the dungeon, God will make you a Samson there! Let men sell you into indentured servitude, God will make you Joseph. Let men build a death trap for you, God shall turn it into the days of Mordecai and Haman and you shall only see with your eyes the destruction of evil conspirators who would never repent! Let all odds be against you, God will make you Job. And when though fear grips your heart because of the storm you see, God will empower you and make you more than Peter. Stay hopeful! Trust in God!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Even the bravest of us loath war, and those who long for it are the most dangerous.

~ Emory R. Frie

If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death.

~ Uchenna Durugo

I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.

~ Suzanne Collins

If you could choose any mask to wear right now, what would it be?” Anne lay down her yarn. “I suppose if, as you say, I would grow into this mask, then I would make it of my own face . . . but a braver, better version of myself.” “And what would this braver Anne do?” The answer came quickly, as if it had been there all along. I’d save them, she thought.

~ Lena Coakley

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

~ Thomas Aquinas

A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit. In the heat of battle he remains cool; in the midst of catastrophes he keeps level his mind. Earthquakes do not shake him, he laughs at storms. We admire him as truly great, who, in the menacing presence of danger or death, retains his self-possession; who, for instance, can compose a poem under impending peril or hum a strain in the face of death. Such indulgence betraying no tremor in the writing or in the voice, is taken as an infallible index of a large nature—of what we call a capacious mind (Yoyū), which, far from being pressed or crowded, has always room for something more.

~ Inazo Nitobe

A coward is a servant of his fears.A hero enslaves his fears.

~ Lera Auerbach

I have to hold that up as a metaphor for everything, being prepared and then being brave enough to just be there. Just listen and follow, maybe jump. Everyone leans in, it brings them into your emotional vicinity because, you said Risk creates intimacy

~ Mary-Louise Parker

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

~ Veronica Roth

I didn't recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bit ironic that my first time seeing a woman in all her form and glory and saggy drug-tainted tits, arrived at the same exact time as my first introduction to death.

~ Dave Matthes

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

~ Dan Groat

Those of us who are brave enough to venture out, find so many things that we never knew within.

~ Linda Poindexter

It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall

~ Susan Hill

In God’s vocabulary, ‘lost’ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective ‘found’ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave?

~ Tove Jansson

Then help us.”“I don’t want to make trouble, Madame.”“Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?”“Doing nothing is doing nothing.”“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.” …“It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?”“You try.

~ Anthony Doerr

All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.

~ Andrea Cremer

It is not because things are difficult that we dare not undertake them. Be then bold in spirit. Indulge no doubts, for doubts are traitors.

~ L.g. Abell

We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselves that freedom.

~ Teresa Collins

Bravery means doing something scary.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I’m going,’ he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave.

~ Jodi Meadows

The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

~ Brandon Mull

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

~ James A. Garfield

It takes more than balls to be a woman. It takes ovaries.

~ Solange Nicole

We can hope.

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.

~ Anne Ursu

There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is.

~ Ronda Rousey