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Bravery Quotes


"Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean."


"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."



"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."


"Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too, I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same."


"A coward's fear can make a coward valiant."


"Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you."


"I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need."


"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."


"Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt."


"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."


"If you try to extinguish the light of one who shines like the sun you will get burned."



"There is no way to counterfeit courage, we either have it or we do not."


"Rise above your fears and you rise above your world."


"When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks."


"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."


"Don't be too scared to calculate risks."


"He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did."



"To go against the grain is the secret of bravery."


"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent."


"It is better to be a lion for one day than a wolf for a lifetime."


"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!"



"If anything I urge you to live bravely and beyond your own comfort zone."


"A brave heart doesn't pump coward's blood."


"Character- building education is what the world needs " education, that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say "some other time, pal!"


"A lion is only dangerous if it has teeth."


"Behind your greatest fears lie your greatest rewards."


"If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends."


"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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