Quotes About Bravery

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived.

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.

Sometimes the monsters come harder when you dare stomp. Sometimes you need to bring the whole house down.

He doesn't want to answer any more questions with "I don't know." He wants his son to be responsible. He'd like him to be brave. Remi just wants to be the good guy, the good father. Just for once, he'd like his son to look up to him, to trust him

He liked to introduce himself to his new victims with: "I am Kees Kaptein, the greatest Jew crusher in the Netherlands!

If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things . . . always try every possible way, and if you don't see a way, ask for help . . . COURAGE ALL THE TIME.

They knew where they were going by then—Ravensbrück, the concentration camp set up by Himmler in 1938 for all the women who did not fit the Aryan Kinder-Küche-Kirche ideal: criminals, prostitutes, Roma, and, in recent years, increasing numbers of Resistance fighters from all over Europe.

And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.

qué son las posibilidades? ¿No significan acaso promesa, siempre y cuando seamos valientes? ¿No significan acaso poder de la voluntad?: y saberlo es suficiente para ser capaz de esperar.

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death

And the day came when the need to remain closed became more painful than the risk to open. ANONYMOUS

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I've never knocked back an opponent in my life.

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

I think we have seen evidence that being brave enough to go abroad can lead to a proper opportunity.

The men and women who put their lives on the line every day, often under very dangerous circumstances are true heroes and they deserve every protection that we can give them. They serve and protect our communities and our families.

Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.

It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.

Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.