Quotes About Bravery

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

It's time to lie down and be counted.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

Every time you are willing to say "Yes" to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

If I were scared of rednecks, I would've moved on a long time ago. That's not a fear I struggle with.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.

Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man's a coward.

The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man? Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind - as long as it's day-time and you're not behind him.

But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.

There are not enough morally brave men in stock. We are out of moral-courage material; we are in a condition of profound poverty.