Quotes About Bravery

When we are in a holding pattern, it is because we know exactly what we should do next, but we are terrified to act on it.

Living isn't for wimps no matter what age you are

wonder Nettie hadn't told her to get out there

Lizzy hated mice with a passion. A spider, she could handle. A snake, she could kill with a hoe or a pistol. But a damn mouse was only slightly smaller than a full-grown gorilla and it roared like a lion.

You have to fight twice- once against your fear and once against your enemy.

Nancy zipped across the street and into a photocopy shop. "Hi. I want you to blow something up," she said to the clerk. "This is a copy shop, not a terrorist headquarters," said the young man behind the counter. Then he laughed with his entire thin body. "I never get tired of that joke," he said.

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of--it was the other creatures of the night.

There is no shame in fear. It's what keeps you and yours alive.

No, it an't a good way to live. It's a good way to die, in fact.

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

Crees que ser valiente significa no tener miedo? ¿O atreverse? El coraje, en realidad, significa dar tres pasos cuando eso te aterra

Years later Tubman likened her decision to an epiphany: "I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."40

Official military reports credited Montgomery with the Combahee River Raid's triumph, yet soldiers recognized this victory as Harriet Tubman's.

Fear is the enemy, fear is the foe, if you run before it down you'll go. But if you stand and look it in the face, God will pour into you the bravery of grace.

She didn't want to see the blow coming, but refused to take the coward's way. She raised her lashes, meeting his gaze with a steady one of her own, even though her knees threatened to buckle from fear. "You've made me very angry, Miss Constance," he said. "No one disrespects the name Lachlan. Not without paying a price." And then he did something she had not anticipated. He kissed her.

The Brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

Josh takes chances; he's braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn't. He does it anyway and he learns. I think we adults have a lot to learn from that. Perhaps to be not so afraid and oversensible about reaching for goals.

The brave man isn't he who doesn't feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way.

Ever hear the saying that you need to be scared to be brave?

You were the only person who truly told me in that interview that you weren't afraid to fly, that in fact you were afraid that you wouldn't.