Quotes About Bravery

Action can cure fear and hesitation and doubt.

I am convinced by my style of play, so I take risks without much hesitation.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.

People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.

'Better Than Home,' the song, is about getting out of your hiding place and having the courage to live as loud as possible. It is about feeling the life that has been given and has been waiting for you all along.

I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

Not for a moment had I been afraid. It is true that whoever would cross the threshold of any world, must leave fear behind him; but, for myself, I could claim no part in its absence. No conscious courage was operant in me; simply, I was not afraid. I neither knew why I was not afraid, nor wherefore I might have been afraid. I feared not even fear—which of all dangers is the most dangerous.

Yes, it is - a very great deal, for it is a beginning. And a beginning is the greatest thing of all. To try to be brave is to be brave. The coward who tries to be brave is before the man who is brave because he is made so, and never had to try.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

She did not hesitate. Right into the hole she went, which was high enough to let her walk without stooping. For a little way there was a brown glimmer, but at the first turn it all but ceased, and before she had gone many paces she was in total darkness.

it wasn't that I'd grown any braver as I got older - the reverse if anything

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.

We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us Orwell cited Kipling's phrase making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep (Kipling, Tommy), and further noted that Kipling's grasp of function, of who protects whom, is very sound. He sees clearly that men can be highly civilized only while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. (1942)

Tengo mujer y tres hijos. El mayor de ellos no tiene todavía seis años. Podéis coger a los cuatro y cortarles el cuerpo delante de mí y yo lo contemplaré sin rechistar. Pero no me llevéis a la habitación 101

If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope.

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf --Opening to My Father's Son, attributed to George Orwell