Quotes About Bravery

The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

I love the military. They don't get nearly enough credit for all the hard work they do to protect us, keep us in a safe place so we can enjoy ourselves every day.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

Boy, the things I do for England.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Lean into the discomfort of the work.

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

Understand your fears and then work to conquer them.

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

I haven't the slightest wish to get in a rocket and zoom through the stratosphere.