Brave Quotes

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

We can't be brave without fear.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.