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Quotes About Bravery

A week before the Daimler opinion was handed down, in January 2014, [Sonia] Sotomayor told an audience of more than a thousand that to bolster her courage, she often thought about the worst thing that could happen when she undertook a challenging endeavor. She would conclude: 'You know something...so what?
~ Joan Biskupic
She tightened her seat belt yet again, so she felt like she was wearing a strait jacket—appropriate dress for someone as crazy as she had to have been to come along on this trip.
~ Joan Johnston
Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
~ Joan L. Curcio
He peered up the stairs. "Want to go first? Or last?" Debbie looked behind her. "Neither, but I suppose if I have to, I'll be first. I don't want something creeping up behind me." "I wish you wouldn't say dumb things like that!" Jeff shouted. He let her climb the stairs first, but he edged up sideways, one eye on the stairs behind them.
~ Joan Lowery Nixon
Anything could be hiding down here!" "Don't think like that. You'll just scare yourself." "I'm already scared!" "Well, don't scare me then!
~ Joan Lowery Nixon
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
~ Joan of Arc
Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
~ Joan of Arc
going when common sense dictated she
~ Joan Overfield
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
~ Joanna Baillie
Courage is willful hope.
~ Joanna Russ
He said to tell you that he has me and Sophie. He's going to kill us if you don't do what he says. He's also a giant fucking pussy, and I think when you catch him, you should let me cut out his balls with a dull spoon before shooting him in the head.
~ Joanna Wylde
Sometimes you have to fight what won't yield and put yourself where it's safe to be crazy.
~ Joanne Greenberg
Oturma odas?nda kan görmekten herkes korkar, 'Ac? çeken birini görmeye dayanam?yorum,' derler, 'Onun için git, d??ar?da öl!
~ Joanne Greenberg
There isn't ever going to be an end," she said. "The point is that people have to continue always speaking up and not being afraid.
~ Jodi Kantor
The Lady shrugged nonchalantly. "You're a hider. Thats what you're thinking. And you're right." May swallowed and nodded, feeling very small. The Lady kneaded her wrinkled hands. "What you are hiding from the most, my dear, is that you are none of those things you are so afraid of being - cowardly, weak, small. You aren't afraid to know you're afraid. And you're most afraid that you're stronger than you know.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
But I don't want to lose my guts answered Pumpkin
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Pine Sap said once that he would rather die than see Tiger Lily tamed. I guess Tiger Lily felt the same way with Peter, because she stayed behind.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
What you did was very brave," Aunt Sticky Feet said, her words clipped but not unkind, "but men don't want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men." "I don't care about that," Tiger Lily said quietly.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
but men don't want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
She thought of all the things she'd forgotten to be scared of.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
I know I'll miss it forever, but I also know that I can't give into that. As much as I've always loved Canaan and loved you, I want my life to go forward even if it hurts. And I've decided I have to reach for what I want even if my hands are trembling from fear. I'm sorry, Ellis, but I'm not coming home.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
The English girl scared her more than any other creature in the forest.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Hard words are for fools and cowards.
~ Joe Abercrombie