Quotes About Bravery

At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

Amanda Briars was a beautiful woman masquerading as a plain one…she was funny, intelligent, brave, practical, and, most of all, interesting.

I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

I had hooked up my iPod to the speakers. The air was filled with the raw, sexy purr of Etta James. "The thing that's great about the blues," I told Luke, pausing to sip from my glass of wine, "is that it's about feeling, loving, wanting without the brakes on. No one's brave enough to live that way. Except maybe musicians.

He wouldn't have done this before, you know. He used to have more sense than to risk his neck for someone else. Especially strangers. The numbskull." Kathleen smiled. Swallowing back the tightness in her throat, she reached out and smoothed his hair back. "My dear friend," she whispered, "I'm sorry to have to say this…but you would have done the same thing.

audacious, far different from Ethan's

What are we drinking to?" I asked. "To escape plans?" "Whose?" "Anyone with the guts," said Sean.

Afraid was good, he thought. Change requires fear, he knew this too.

His experience: everybody is afraid of something. Find out what everybody else is afraid of and go into that.

Your best opportunities are out on the skinny branch.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb. —John Gotti CHAPTER

I never lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid. —John Gotti CHAPTER

My fingers curl on his cheek, and all self-consciousness is gone, forgotten. "I'm not afraid of whatever you're talking about. I think you keep warning me away because you're the one who's afraid.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

fortes fortuna adiuvat," Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.

You had to admire a guy who wanted to keep you from death.

But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.

I desire to live my life this way,... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to magnificence. Help me find the way.

You're big enough to climb the rope; you're big enough to take the fall,

If there is something one wants badly, one must often be bold.

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

The secret to happiness is freedom—and the secret to freedom is courage." She

Nonsense," Bridget said. "The secret to happiness is freedom—and the secret to freedom is courage.