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Quotes About Bravery

Dear goddess! Face-up again against the renewal of vows. Do not let me die a coward, mother. Nor forget how to sing. Nor forget song is a part of mourning as light is a part of sun.
~ Audre Lorde
I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs
~ August Strindberg
It was a great story and I admired her. And I also felt a little envious. Because that bloody tampon had been a secret weapon. And every woman had one. But only a woman like Debby would be brave enough to use it.
~ Augusten Burroughs
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
~ Ayelet Waldman
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
~ Ayn Rand
Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.
~ Ayn Rand
I am not brave enough to be a coward, she said. I see the consequences too clearly
~ Ayn Rand
I'll be afraid only on a day that will never come. The day when I give up.
~ Ayn Rand
It's very uncomfortable to be a hero, Joel, and you don't have the figure for it.
~ Ayn Rand
What would I do if I weren't afraid?
~ Spencer Johnson
Sometimes we're not even aware that we're afraid.
~ Spencer Johnson
He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are so afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.
~ Spencer Johnson
Qué harías si no tuvieras miedo?
~ Spencer Johnson
Haw realized he had been held captive by his own fear. Moving in a new direction had freed him.
~ Spencer Johnson
At a time of shuddering devastation, they stepped in as the dragon-slayers.
~ Stacy Schiff
I will stand alone. I will oppose tyranny at the threshold, though the fabric of liberty fall and I perish in its ruins.
~ Stacy Schiff
maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn't afraid, because he knew he'd never carry it out. Right, but now, imagine that suddenly, in broad daylight, among other people, he meets IT embodied, chained to him, indestructible. What then? What do you have then?
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Fear not only has big eyes, Mr. Tichy, it has a small brain.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Anche dalle apocalissi si può tornare indietro, se uno ha il coraggio di guardarci dentro. Ma voi non avete questo coraggio. Parlate di tutte le apocalissi, meno che della vostra. Lasciate pure a noi spiriti l'ultimo colpo di spada. Non posso spiegarle cosa accadrà, Hacarus. Tutto ciò che è troppo diverso da quello che siete soliti pensare, voi lo chiamate nulla. Bene, dopo di noi ci sarà il nulla. E in questo nulla qualcosa ricomincerà.
~ Stefano Benni
Olive had great courage. Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.
~ Steinbeck, John
Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death
~ Stella Adler