Quotes About Bravery

Don´t be afraid,Miss Burel.This won´t hurt a bit."He ran his teeth over his lower lip,tugging at the silver hoops."Unless you want it to.

Sometimes the monsters are real . . . Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

Facing the fear helped. Most days. But the thing about fear was that it ate away at your reason, made you smaller. It was her mini dare each day to come home to this place. To embrace normal and live her own life on her own terms, even if she was afraid. Her life was her own. She made it, and no one would take it from her again.

Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.

Crap. I was a lying chicken.

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.

A person has to face up to things. You never solve anything by running away.

He hung up and stood there, his mind spinning. Uncle Benny's words whispered in his head. We'll do what we always do. What they always did. Fight fires. Save people's lives. Yes, that's what they'd do now. The FDNY was the biggest fire department in the world. They were the best. And they would do what they always did.

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But, Danny decided, being scared was better than being numb.

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She took a deep breath, lifting her chin.

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More scared, even, than the time the black panther chased him through the woods back home in Millerstown, New York.

But there was more. "And we showed that Americans are willing to fight the most powerful army in the world. We showed that we can hold our ground.

It's one thing to call off an engagement or even a wedding once the invitations are out—it's hard, but it happens. But on the actual day? You're walking, sister. Get yourself down that aisle and do whatever you have to do afterward, you know?

Prince Henry offered a bold reply, "You cannot find a peril so great that the hope of reward will not be greater.

over the rail and lowered himself onto a crude seat suspended high above the waves.

Fear was his most important means of motivating his men; they became more afraid of Magellan than the hazards of the sea.

But they being stricken with feare through this example, durst not come forth of their shippes

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