Quotes About Bravery

The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it's more interesting to be dangerous.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted. "I know. Fear is only fear, though." "And somehow you live without it." "No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

Fear cannot bind us, if we have faith.

Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature but great was her fame; Upon the English loons she laid many thumps, And when her legs were cuttied off she fought upon her stumps.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die

Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.

Step up and don't be afraid

Siccome l'uomo russo nei momenti decisivi conserva la presenza di spirito, e fa quel che c'è da fare senza inoltrarsi in altri ragionamenti, così, prendendo a destra al primo incrocio, egli gridò: "Forza su, rispettabili amici", e si lanciò al galoppo senza preoccuparsi troppo di pensare a dove conducesse la strada che aveva preso.

I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Labeled like parcels—Caroline Wendy Willow and Nicholas Peter Willow—only with no address to be sent to. None of them, not even the teachers, knew where they were going. "That's part of the adventure," Carrie's mother had said, and not just to cheer them up; it was her nature to look on the bright side. If she found herself in hell, Carrie thought now, she'd just say, "Well, at least we'll be warm .

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

you can be a hero, too. For England.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him

Think of what's scary in a movie… The unseen, the imagined, is always more frightening than what's graphically portrayed.The same holds true in your head. Face your fear, step into it, look at it head-on and it will diminish in stature, lose its hold on your imagination. But run, and it'll grow wings, breather fire, and fly after you.

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

It turns out that it takes courage simply to be a normal person at ease in the world among others.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.