Quotes About Bravery

I follow a rule with my life that if something is scary, do it. I've lived everywhere in America, and for me, a big scary thing was living outside the country." After

A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous,

I follow a rule with my life that if something is scary, do it. I've lived everywhere in America, and for me, a big scary thing was living outside the country.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.

What I was about to attempt was a thing that only I could do. And I would do it on my own.

And for the first time in many years she felt ready to fight.

Una obra tremendista (...) ha de retratar el mundo con una cruel y descarnada sinceridad; ha de contar siempre toda la verdad (...) ha de ser clara como el aire de las montañas; caritativa con los bienaventurados que sufren en silencio, tierna como una loba amamantando a un niño, honesta sin tabú ni juegos de palabras, y valerosa y arrojada como un héroe adolescente y enloquecido.

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Amy might have called him brave in that email but he was afraid of everything about Amy, especially her body, which had the terrible problem of being crippled and attractive.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.

Courageous men are not fearless men, but those who climb despite fear. Everyone has a bridge to climb. At the end of the day, fear and I shake hands and part knowing we'll meet again when we climb our bridge together.

Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don't share: Courage comes from doing common things.

Of course I deprecate war," he wrote, "but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

Let us weep," Rondon would tell them, "for I loved this man who has perished for my sake. But I command you to do as he did. Never shoot." Rondon believed that his mission in protecting and pacifying the Indians was larger than his own life, larger than any of their lives. He would rather die than surrender his ideals, and he obliged his men to follow suit.

Roosevelt, still wearing his heavy, hobnailed boots, watched as the snake's short fangs plunged into the tough leather and spilled its venom down the side of his boot. He had been spared an agonizing, certain death by a quarter-inch of leather.

Always more audacity.

Roosevelt had never allowed himself to fear death, famously writing, "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die." From a very young age, he had been prepared to die in order to live the life he wanted. When a doctor at Harvard told him that his heart was weak and would not hold out for more than a few years unless he lived quietly, he had replied that he preferred an early death to a sedentary life.

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.