Quotes About Bravery

Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.

Si un hombre me parase en la calle y me pidiera el reloj, me negaría a dárselo; si me amenazara con quitármelo a la fuerza, creo que, aunque no tengo nada de valiente, haría cuanto pudiera para evitarlo. Pero si, por otra parte, me manifestara su intención de obtenerlo mediante la intervención de los tribunales de justicia, me lo sacaría del bolsillo y se lo daría, convencido de que el asunto me había salido barato.

But I've won, she said. I'm dying further forward. I've helped advance the line.

Non è utile andar sempre secondo corrente. V'è più soddisfazione nell'affrontarla e combatterla, e andare innanzi a suo dispetto [...]

I resolved that if I was ever in a war, I would be a dumb nonspy.

he told her again and again that he did not, he really did not want to be a wringer. Dorothy hopped down from the desk. She walked across the room and stood before Palmer and looked straight into his eyes. "Then don't," she said. She made it sound so simple.

Sephie finding three boys picking on me on the playground and pushing them down, fierce as an Amazon.

In fact, he talked about his painful and insidious cancer so plainly and without affect that to this day, I consider matter-of-factness a form of courage.

He thought of Count Tolstoy's book and how, after the horrific, bloody battle of Borodino, the war just seemed to peter out, ending not in bravery but in retreat—exhaustion and the change of seasons having as much to do with the final Russian victory as any decisive action.

I did it, Finn. I did it. I was ready to jump, and now she's jumping with me.

I put my arms around your waist and pull you in, holding you, letting you know I'm with you. I tell you that you can do this, that you're strong enough and brave enough. I tell you that you can do anything. So you nod and agree to jump.

I jumped out of a goddamn airplane with Matt. Because of Matt. For Matt.

I will be brave. I will be brave. I will be brave. I will keep going.

Celeste) Be the hero, Matty. Come on. You're supposed to be the hero now. The romatic lead. I know that, too, he said. Matt did not hesitate a moment longer. Julie, I love you. I absolutely love you.

You have more strength than anyone should. All those years that you were alone? That you isolated yourself? You didn't have friends, you didn't have anyone to be close with, to talk with, or… or play with. You were alone. That must have been painful, and yet you rallied anyway and kept going. It takes strength to stay apart from the crowd. You are brave, Celeste.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.

The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.

Columbia is ... for people whose genitals still work, dammit. For writers who want to be brave and persevere in the real world where people often fail.

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.