Quotes About Bravery

To be a hero you always have to betray something or someone.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

But we do have other choices, my dear. We can turn our backs on all that we know is right, sit ourselves down, fold our hands and allow wickedness to go unchallenged and therefore to prevail. We can run away and hide. Or we can stand our ground and fight inequality to our last heartbeat, knowing that if we perish, we have done all that we could and others will carry on, just as those who came before us have done.

Manhandeling a lady was asking for trouble pretty much anywhere, but square in the middle of cowboy-central, it was close to suicidal.

Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin

I didn't really need a champion, though--a man who'd slay dragons on my behalf. If I ran into any dragon that needed slaying, I'd take care of it. Although, as a vet tech, I might instead choose to find the appropriate anti-anxiety med to calm the creature without permanently harming it.

And she found her voice. "Thank you," she said, and looked up at him bravely. "Thank you for bringing the water.

Women," Nellie answered. "Women kicking butt all over the place.

Head Warrior was leading his and the chief's horses

A bully is only a coward who needs to be shown who's really in charge.

I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into the cockpit and, minutes later, a black dot, fall off the wing two thousand feet above our field. At almost the same instant, a white streak behind him flowered out into the delicate, wavering muslin of a parachute -- a few gossamer yards grasping onto air and suspending below them, with invisible threads, a human life, a man who by stitches, cloth, and cord, had made himself a god of the sky.

lindbergh charles ii

What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Tiene miedo. —No me importa que tenga miedo por ti. Lo que sí me importa es que tenga miedo de ti.

Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

Bravery isn't measured by size. It's measured by heart.

real bravery is doing what needs to be done, even if what needs to be done terrifies you to the depths of your soul.

But it's not easy, and that, I realize, is what makes the circus the circus--doing what's difficult and making it look simple. It's the presence of one thing I've never had but always needed and didn't even know I was missing. Magic. And suddenly, I'm no longer afraid.

Nick turned out to be a shy boy, uncertain in groups and in new situations, but also very brave, determined to overcome his fear." - Will, as a parent describing his son