Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win,...

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There’s nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but...

Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of hell.

And then eventually you wake up, fully rested, ready to fly again 🙂

The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to do that; and 2. You never know if they are going to throw it...

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king...

Early season bravery has caused some of the most traumatic injuries I’ve seen in 21 years in the ski business. Injuries in the first part of the season occur at both ends of the spectrum....

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?””Not likely! I’m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself...

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you’re quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it...

Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

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

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests....

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough...

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.

The future doesn’t belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Luthicer hummed. “You’re either brave or very foolish.” “What’s the difference?” (Eric)

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she’s a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever...

You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.

Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour.

There is no freedom without bravery.

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth,...

Susan had told him once that bravery was when you wanted to pee your pants, but you kept fighting

Have nuts and be nuts.

I am quite possibly the world’s bravest coward. I have never backed down from backing down from a fight.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind; only with the death...

And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.

I just had to find the courage to take that first step.

Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

Bravery hides in amazing places.

Bravery is an amazing and aggressive teacher. Its gives me the energy to dive into life, recover from disappointment, and mentally escape whatever locked door holds me in.

I’m sorry you aren’t as brave as you thought you were. But don’t punish me because of it.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.

Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.

You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but...

Gene was a lifelong friend and our professional competition only strengthened that bond, … He showed great bravery in the months after his surgery, continuing to work as long as he could.

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

It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a Very Small Animal.

‎”What does it mean if i’m afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?” “No, it doesn’t mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to...

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I’ve known who had no voice.