Quotes About Bravery

Stevie had no fears of the dead. The living, however, sometimes gave her the creeps.

It was okay to give up. I'd been brave. Everyone would say so. And yet...even as I opened a dresser drawer and figured out which things I would take with me in this hypothetical scenario, I remembered the problem. There would still be ghosts. I would still have a future.

She didn't want to be brave anymore. It was exhausting. Anxiety crawled under her skin all the time, like some alien creature that might burst through at any moment. Stevie

Much as I would have liked to, I couldn't hide upstairs forever. Sooner or later, I was going to have to come down and face the world.

Sometimes you have to leave the fucking Shire, Frodo.

Stevie swept her light around, steering it away from a terrifying crack in the side, and then aimed it squarely forward. I'm going to the end, she said. Seriously? Nate said. This is what I came here for. My dragons are down there. Stevie, I wouldn't ... You're not me, Stevie said. If I die, avenge me. She was joking, but not totally. She had to go, and it also felt like a possible mistake. Some mistakes you have to make.

he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

Good God, Dagny! Do you expect me to be afraid of an object like James?

It was a satisfying bravery; it never aroused antagonism.

Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.

You're sure about this?" "No. But I'm doing it anyway. I have to.

I'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet.

Carlo is safe because I don't really love him that much. If he stopped wanting me around one day, it wouldn't be so terrible. I wouldn't die. Hallie, I realize how that sounds. I feel small and ridiculous and hemmed in on every side by the need to be safe. All I want is to be like you, to walk into a country of chickens and land mines and call that home, and have it be home. How do you just charge ahead, always doing the right thing, even if you have to do it alone with people staring?

This is all going to scare us to death," she said. "You and me. But we're still going to have to do it.

Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.

If fight or flight is the choice, it's way easier to fly.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

It's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

I feared not, and grew accustomed to walking alone.

But where is the place for girls in that Kingdom? The rules don't quite apply to us, nor protect us either. What do a girl's bravery and righteousness count for, unless she is also pretty? Just try being the smartest and most Christian seventh-grade girl in Bethlehem, Georgia. Your classmates will smirk and call you a square. Call you worse, if you're Adah.

You have to get up every morning and decide again, in the cold lonely light of day, am I brave enough to stick this out?

When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.

Your power ends where your fear begins.