Quotes About Bravery

Never can an authority admit that the intellectually courageous - those who dare to defy his authority - may be the most valuable type.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.

They flicked the reins and were carried far ahead of the men, with that violent female daring which is so far from manly valor.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?

just because you're afraid doesn't actually mean there's anything to be afraid of.

But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.

I saw in one flash that the most courageous thing a person can do is to love without being afraid.

the bravest act of war is love.

The rumble starts today. Right here, right now. Time to be gutsy as hell.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

I was fearless...and lawless.

But when The Prince of Tides came out, thank God she was dead. I'm not sure I would have had the guts to publish that with her still alive.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Letting your soul, or whatever fancy name you like to give it, out of its cage and into the daylight is perhaps the hardest thing anyone can do.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.