Quotes About Bravery

Do whatever you want to me; but mess with my kids and you better run for your life. Because I'm coming after you and hells coming with me.

If you want to cure a neurosis, you have to risk something."2

Go into the fear, deal with it, lest you live a fugitive life.

Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school -- or the whole world even -- than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.

Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?

I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

It is like looking down from the clifs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.

Dare it. Let there be life.

Norman Cousins said, "Death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is.

And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic physical characteristics or the auras of saints. In fact, their faces are like those of people whom you might randomly pull out of a supermarket line, their physical makeup so nondescript and unremarkable that it's hard to remember what they look like ten minutes after they walk out of a room.

If I've learned anything at all from my years, it's the simple lesson that human beings are always more complicated, brave, long-suffering, and, ultimately, heroic than we ever guessed, and that none of us completely understands another, no matter how intimate we are with them.

No matter what the other side does to you, you grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives them crazy.

The men and women who protected them and would one day live in Valhalla required no recompense other than their own self-respect.

to try and preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

But I don't fear him, and that's because I have never known a bully who was not a coward.

The truth is, when bullets are whacking against tree-trunks and solid shot are cracking skulls like egg-shells, the consuming passion in the breast of the average man is to get out of the way. Between the physical fear of going forward and the moral fear of turning back, there is a predicament of exceptional awkwardness.

Man hates. Animals don't hate. You been in the zoo too long, Rubs. Who could hate old Rubs? Hate you because you're scared of something? We're all scared of something, Rubs. Just remember every fear that lives inside makes you smaller. But when you air your fears, they disappear." "How's that?

I'm Osawatomie John Brown of Kansas," he declared. He liked to use his full Indian name when he was warring. "And I come to free the Negro people.

I dragged my gear down to the shore and saw the submariners, the way they stood aloof and silent, watching their pigboat with loving eyes. They are alone in the Navy. I admired the PT boys. And I often wondered how the aviators had the courage to go out day after day and I forgave their boasting. But the submariners! In the entire fleet they stand apart.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

So the first thing we're gonna do, I told him, is push you off the roof.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.