Quotes About Bravery

Man cannot sprout wings unless he has first reached the brink of the abyss!

They had no fear of death, and whoever has no fear of death—the centurion had often meditated on this here in the East—whoever has no fear of death is immortal.

I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.

If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front of the television set and ate it. I felt very brave and plucky as I ate my perfect dinner. Okay, I didn't have a date, but at least I wasn't one of those lonely women who sat home with a pathetic container of yogurt.

Above all, be the heroine of your life.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave?

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail ? Nora Ephron

My boyfriend and I are badasses.

The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

What if there's a fire? Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me. Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking. They're wise to fear me.

Love is very brave.

Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.

He wouldn't just be facing her, he thought with genuine, back-sweating fear, but all of them. The four of them, with Mrs. Grady for backup. They'd roast his balls.

You don't want to wait for Owen? Ryder just sneered at him. Afraid of a little sweat, sweetheart? Sunstroke maybe. Find your balls, and let's go get it done.

Why stop now? Seduce me, Brian.I dare you. I've always found it hard to turn aside a dare.

I think you should do what makes you happy. And sometimes doing what makes you happy is harder and scarier than doing what's safe.

Do you think I'll let it go, that I'll hide from it because you, who's anything but a coward, is afraid of what ifs?

But I did it because you can't constantly be afraid of what might happen. If you do, you lose control of what is happening, and all the joy and pain it holds for you

Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

And Grant Campbell was about to take a short walk off a high cliff.

There are always monsters," the old man replied. "Just as there are always men who will join them, and men who will fight them.