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Quotes About Bravery

And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now
~ Virginia Woolf
When shall we be free? When shall we live adventurously, wholly, not like cripples in a cave?
~ Virginia Woolf
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
~ Virginia Woolf
He was drowned, he used to say, and lying on a cliff with gulls screaming over him. He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea. Or he was hearing music… But "Lovely!" he used to cry and the tears would run down his cheeks, which was to her the most dreadful thing of all, to see a man like Septimus, who had fought, who was brave, crying. And he would lie listening until suddenly he would cry that he was falling down, down into the flames!
~ Virginia Woolf
For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet
~ Virginia Woolf
I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
~ Virginia Woolf
The soul must brave itself to endure.
~ Virginia Woolf
Qué enemigo percibimos ahora avanzando hacia nosotros, tú, sobre quien ahora cabalgo, mientras piafamos en este pavimento? Es la muerte. La muerte es el enemigo. Es la muerte contra la que cabalgo, lanza en ristre y melena al viento, como un hombre joven, como Percival cuando galopaba en la India. Pico espuelas. ¡Contra ti me lanzaré, entero e invicto, oh Muerte!
~ Virginia Woolf
It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.
~ Virginia Woolf
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
~ Vivekananda
Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
~ Vivekananda
I take my hat off to the hero who dashes into a burning house and saves his neighbor's child; but I shake his hand if he has risked squandering a precious five seconds to find and save, together with the child, its favorite toy.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If I was feeling frightened playing tennis, I don't see why I would do it!
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose
~ Langston Hughes
Sólo porque algo no sea buena idea no significa que no debas hacerlo -Elizabeth
~ Lani Diane Rich
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
~ Lao Tzu
From caring comes courage.
~ Lao Tzu
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
~ Lao Tzu
You honor us well, warrior." - Lucan
~ Lara Adrian
Don't let fear keep you from pushing your personal boundaries. If you do, you'll miss out on some of the most pleasurable things in life.
~ Lara Adrian
You two have a lot of balls coming here." Kynan gestured to Arik. "He does. I'm charmed. Nothing can hurt me. Or my balls.
~ Larissa Ione
Love is like jumping off a cliff, even when you know you're acrophobic.
~ Lark
Courage is fear that has said its prayers." And
~ Larkin Spivey
Most of us are one of two things: blind or chicken-shit. We wouldn't know a crossroads in our lives if it had a set of stoplights and a Denny's.
~ Larry Brooks