Quotes About Bravery

As he left, I peered at Sarah Mapps and her mother, the way they grabbed hands and squeezed in relief, and then at Nina, at the small exultation on her face. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinions of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning the Fates had been. Nina was one wing, I was the other.

I would like to be free of the part of me that dares too little and fears too much.

If you must err, do so on the side of audacity. That was the little slogan I'd devised for myself.

She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinion of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning the Fates had been. Nina was one wing, I was the other.

We had a signal. When I turned the pail upside down by the kitchen house, that meant everything was clear. Mauma would open the window and throw down a taffy she stole from missus' room. Sometimes here came a bundle of cloth scraps—real nice calicos, gingham, muslin, some import linen. One time, that true brass thimble. Her favorite thing to take was scarlet-red thread. She would wind it up in her pocket and walk right out the house with it.

If you must err, do so on the side of audacity. That was the little slogan I'd devised for myself. For

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.

Your moment will come, and when it does, you must seize it with all the bravery you can find. Your moment will come because you'll make it come.

Your moment will come, and when it does, you must seize it with all the bravery you can find...Your moment will come because you'll make it come.

To avoid fear emboldens it.

It was true I no longer believed in the God of rescue, only the God of presence, but I believed in Sophia, who whispered bravery and wisdom in my ear day and night, if I would only listen, and I tried now to do that, to listen.

She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinion of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning

Don't look away. Terrible things will happen now. Unbearable things. Bear it anyway.

You won't look over your shoulder, will you? She was referring [..] to the terrible inclination we women sometimes had to scurry back to safety. No, I told her. I won't look back.

but I believed in Sophia, who whispered bravery and wisdom in my ear day and night, if I would only listen, and I tried now to do that, to listen.

I always have cold feet but come on, they won't stop me.

To avoid a fear emboldens it.

would err on the side of audacity.

I would err on the side of audacity.

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

Never venture, never win!

if you fight with all your might,  there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

The superstitious, bound in to saucy doubts and fears, degenerate into cowards and die many times before their deaths.

Above the Fray, You Have No Fear Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident.