Quotes About Bravery

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it. THUCYDIDES

Chamberlain

Knuckle time" referred to those moments when you have to go up against your worst fears.

Faint heart ne'er won a lady fair.

I don't think so,' said Harry calmly. 'You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward.

Fortune favours the brave.

spilled their blood on European soil

nearest gutter if he thought it would

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.

When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly.

Because so often when we say we're unqualified for something, what we're really saying is that we're too scared to try it, not that we can't do it.

Same old Wynn. Pirates could descend from the rafters now, but they wouldn't bother Wynn one bit. He'd probably just absent-mindedly ask them if they would mind keeping their swashbuckling down a bit.

He glanced over the side of the ship, and his stomach clenched. The ground was approaching much too fast. There was less fuel than they had realized. A scream pierced the air.

But the last of her strength had gone, and even if she had, in the last moments, managed to overcome her fear of the sea, she could no more move Jana any closer to the ocean than she could grow scales and breathe fire.

That was one of the bravest, stupidest things you've ever done," he said into my hair. "You just scared ten years off my life." I let out a little laugh, adrenaline still pumping through my system. "You're immortal, dummy." "I was before I met you," he quipped.

Ellen Louise, you've done the sensible thing all your life. Now's the time to follow your heart. What if I do that and he still turns me down? What if you don't and you never know?

Crean stepped around her desk and motioned toward the door. Now Nadine's skin prickled with anticipation. This is how it begins. Rationalizing. Telling herself that she had no choice, when deep down hunting killers hiding in plain sight was exactly what she'd always wanted to do—if she were only brave enough. But the prospect scared her, brushing so close to what she most feared.

He won't say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many cases, that is, of course, unfortunate, but rejection is definitely not lethal. Go get him.

Of course you might get shot, but you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. She handed him a plate of deviled eggs. Have one.

Few women had climbed its North Face, and even fewer had done it in winter, but no one had done it alone. She and Jim began talking up her plans and flouting her achievements.

F.E.A.R. Stood for face everything and recover

Make sure you have people who love you, the real you, not the Instagram you. If you can't be brave, pretend to be brave, and if you can't do that yet, know that you aren't alone. Everyone you see is struggling. Nobody has it all figured out.

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.

You know, I've nearly been killed by a poisonous flying lizard-snake, and came close to becoming a squid-croc snack. And you nearly died from stubbing your toe?