Quotes About Bravery

Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.

Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic.

But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really—all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else.

I knew that if I allowed fear to over take me, my journey was doomed.

But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really—all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me.

Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth it was true, I said it anyway: No one.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from teh one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave.

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.

What's important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

Be brave. Write what's true for you. Write what you think. What about what confuses you and compels you. Write about the crazy, hard, and beautiful. Write what scares you. Write what makes you laugh and write what makes you weep. What what makes you feel ashamed or proud. Writing is risk and revelation. There's no need to show up at the party if you're only going to stand around with your hands in your pockets and stare at the drapes.

So I stood up and tossed the other one over the edge too.

Se il coraggio ti è negato va oltre il coraggio.

Women are the ones with the cojones,

When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up.

Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel. So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic.

I probably wouldn't have been fearless enough to go on such a trip with so little money if I hadn't grown up without it.

If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve – EMILY DICKINSON

La paura genera paura. La forza genera forza.

Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me for it.

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. When

This isn't about strength," said Pat. "And you may not be able to see this yet, but perhaps there will come a time—it could be years from now—when you'll need to get on your horse and ride into battle and you're going to hesitate. You're going to falter. To heal the wound your father made, you're going to have to get on that horse and ride into battle like a warrior.