Quotes About Bravery

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

There is no safer. There's not even safe, never has been.

Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.

The good soldier swears to kill. Fire the cannon, mount the barricade, lock and load. Smell your brother's blood on your shirt. Wipe your sister's brains off your face. Die, if you have to, so they'll live. Kill to keep your people alive, live to kill some more.

I stand on the edge of a cliff, wondering if I'm going to fall or jump.

I dare you to punch me, I said. You? Dare me? He was laughing too hard to say anything else. I shove him. I double-dare you. If you don't have the guts to do it, you're a weenie. I shove again, harder. If you do, you're an even bigger weenie because it's harder to take a punch than to give one.

The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them. They need us to be brave enough to give them great books so they can learn how to grow up into the men and women we want them to be.

The whole class yells at Rachel/Rachelle in the hall. That's what you get for speaking up.

It takes more to scare me now.

You can only be brave if you're scared.

I am on top of the highest mountain. The icy ground is shaking, an earthquake, the world beneath me opening up with fire, steel arms ready to pull me down. I have to move. I can't stay here anymore. I throw myself down the mountain and open my mouth.

We're all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark.

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

Why don't you light that candle ?

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

speak hard, steal the air.