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Bravery Quotes
"Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both."
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"A coward's fear can make a coward valiant."
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"Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean."
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"It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us."
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"Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too, I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same."
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"There is no way to counterfeit courage, we either have it or we do not."
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"I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need."
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"To cultivate bravery and courage, try something new for the first time. Take a chance. Stretch beyond your familiar limits by taking risks that move you out of your old mindset and into a new perspective. Once accomplished, trying something new bolsters your confidence and boosts your ability to be brave."
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"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent."
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"Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you."
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"No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection."
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"Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt."
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"He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did."
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"Courage isn't being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons."
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"Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear."
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"She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backwards, right into Nico's sword. "Nice one," Paul said. "When did you learn to fire a shotgun?" I demanded. My mom blew the hair out of her face. "About two seconds ago. Percy, we'll be fine. Go!"
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
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"Human courage was different from Amazon bravery. She saw that now. For all the suspicion and derision she'd heard from her mother and her sisters about the mortal world, Diana couldn't help but admire the people with whom she traveled. Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something. That faith was worth preserving."
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"If you try to extinguish the light of one who shines like the sun you will get burned."
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"Rise above your fears and you rise above your world."
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"Be Brave. Bravery takes fortitude-put yourself on the line, even if you risk failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid-if being brave were easy, more people would be. Just try it!"
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"I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost."
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"It is better to be a lion for one day than a wolf for a lifetime."
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"Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper."
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"She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it."
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"When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks."
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"Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself."
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"Don't be too scared to calculate risks."
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"Behind your greatest fears lie your greatest rewards."
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