Quotes About Bravery

I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.

Taking occasional risks, I'm a strong proponent of that.

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

Firefighting inherently is a dangerous occupation.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

More sensitive than others in the beginning, we have to develop the will, the stamina, the determination, and the insensitivity to take critical abuse. A good writer, therefore, does well to see himself as a strong, weak person, full of brave timidity, sensitive and insensitive.

Then the Warden said, "Do you have anything you'd like to say?" and Gary looked up at the ceiling and hesitated, then said, "Let's do it." That was it. The most pronounced amount of courage, Vern decided, he'd ever seen, no quaver, no throatiness, right down the line.

For if we are our own force, we are also a servant of the forces of the dead. So we have to be bold enough to live with all the magical forces at loose between the living and the dead. That is never free of dread. It takes bravery to live with beauty or wealth if we think of them as an existence connected to the messages, the curses, and the loyalties of the dead. In

No psychic reward might be so powerful as winning a dare with yourself. If you were really scared, and went through it, and came out on the other side intact, then it was hard not to believe for a little while that you were on the side of the gods. It felt as if you could do no wrong. Time slowed. You were no longer doing it. For good or ill, it was doing it. You had entered the logic of that other scheme where death and life had as many relations as Yin and Yang.

He was drinking and contemplating his fear. It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed

It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed

Vanity, complacency, and indolence were a curse, since bravery was an ascending slope and one could not rest on it. One must succeed in rising to every challenge except the ones that would destroy us needlessly.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Basil King once said, "Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain." Practice confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities will soon have no power over you.

Once when Stonewall Jackson planned a daring attack, one of his generals fearfully objected, saying, "I am afraid of this" or "I fear that …" Putting his hand on his timorous subordinate's shoulder, Jackson said, "General, never take counsel of your fears.

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Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.