Quotes About Bravery

You don't seem the type to be afraid," you say. "That's appearances for ya," she says.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

I've witnessed a lot of young people dying, mostly from gunshot wounds. Ain't no bravery like in the movies. Everybody cries when they realize it's the end. Everybody.

Walter and Bell glanced at each other, neither one relishing the idea of being the brave hero who found the escaped tiger in the bedroom.

Okay," Nina said. "We're all thinking it, but I'm going to say it. That was really, really stupid. If I hadn't brought my gun, we'd all be dead.

Manfred sapeva assai bene che esiste una sorta di bravura che lascia del tutto fredda la persona in gamba.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. —OVID

This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.

tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable...

She felt her fear unspooling like a tight fist opening. It was as if she'd been standing on a precipice and suddenly tipped forward. There was no point in feeling afraid. She was already falling, falling through the air, and her future, whatever it held, was rushing up to meet her.

It's brave to resist the pull of the familiar. To be selfish about your own needs. I wrestle with that every day.

Pusillanimous. Talisman.

We don't talk about the danger -- but what I imagine is a cartoon version, bullets flying and each boy a super hero, running, invincible, through a spray of gunfire.

The only person who fears nothing is one who has nothing to lose.

When I was merry and young, too young to feel afraid

Edhe gjërat, të cilave ua kemi frikën, i përbuzim.

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

I won't run away,' I said.

Fear cannot take what you do not give it.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Misattributed: Actually by André Gide.)

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.