Quotes About Bravery

The presence of a commander should be constantly felt and evoke a feeling of courage within his men.

A warrior never worries about his fear.

Dulce resulta la vida cuando no hay temor a la muerte. El mito del Tártaro es vano. Hay que reírse de la muerte igual que de una máscara que aterroriza a los niños. También ella parece que va a morder, pero no muerde.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

Casi no se atrevía a respirar, allí escondida. La verdad es que era una emoción mezclada de miedo. Pero miss Lunatic le había dicho que, frente a las aventuras nuevas, siempre se siente algo de miedo y que no hay más remedio que vencerlo.

You see it is not enough to merely evade evil. One must seek it out and destroy it.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

You've lived through all this, Ruth. Do you know how strong that makes you? Ruth, it takes more work to be afraid than to ride the fear, to live with the fear, to accept it.

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

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Captain Werner Von Bachelle of the 6th Wisconsin in General John Gibbon's Iron Brigade, who died on the Hagerstown Pike with his Newfoundland dog at his side, rests here as well.

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

Those who are hiding out in cowardice want company!

Virtue often is used to camouflage cowardice.

What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task.

We were just two wild Indians... on our own and no though of its being wrong. You must not have us treated like children of today. It would spoil the i picture and the interest..' Children back then, she wrote, 'weren't raised to be helpless cowards.' -Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Fiddler's Roost Inn: the taproom and yard. Sometimes it was not in a lady's best interests to follow any dictates but those of her own heart. Because Lady Charlotte Ascot, daughter of the Earl of Ware, had discovered this at a young age—eight, to be precise, during a footrace against boys with considerably longer legs than she—when faced with a challenge to her courage at the age of twenty-one, she did

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

In dragoste nu exista frica, ci dragostea desavarsita alunga frica. Si stii la ce m-am gandit atunci cand citeai? Ca toata viata mi-am trait-o in frica. Dar acum nu ma mai tem.

The male students stole my equipment and tried unsuccessfully to sabotage my lab work. They told endless filthy jokes and cussed extensively whenever I was within earshot. I learned not to react. They made passes that stopped just short of actual assault. One charmer pinched my rear end so hard I had a bruise on my rump for a week. After I stomped his instep he never did it again.

If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.