Be Brave Quotes

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
- Mark Twain

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
- Ronald Reagan

Next time I'll be braver
I'll be my own savior.
- Adele

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
- Aesop

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.
- Veronica Roth

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
- Veronica Roth

feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.
- Veronica Roth

Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.
- Veronica Roth

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
- Veronica Roth

We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.
- Veronica Roth

I think we've made a mistake," he says softly. "We've all started to put down virtues of the other faction in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
- Veronica Roth

He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
- Veronica Roth

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.
- Paulo Coelho

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
- Paulo Coelho

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
- Alan Alda

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.
- Sherwood Anderson

He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave beforejust indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.
- Patricia Briggs

A window within the soul to see
Light and Magick I send with thee
Be strong, be brave, make the right choice
Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice
Know that I am watching from above
And that always, always, the answer is love!
- P C Cast

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.
- Clive Barker

Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let's start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there's something better out there is to first believe there's something better out there. What other choice is there?
- Greg Behrendt

I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.
- Amy Bloom

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
- William Shakespeare

Lena, listen to me, okay? We don't have much more time here. You are in love. I've never seen anything like this before. You have to be brave, okay? You have to go and tell Kostos how you feel. I swear to God if you don't, you will regret it for the rest of your cowardly life.'
'What if he doesn't like me back?'
'That's what I mean about being brave.
- Ann Brashares

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
- Madeleine L Engle

Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do. -From 'Night Story 1973' by PZB & CRK
- Poppy Z Brite

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving them an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave.
Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mahatma Gandhi

It was a great story and I admired her. And I also felt a little envious. Because that bloody tampon had been a secret weapon. And every woman had one. But only a woman like Debby would be brave enough to use it.
- Augusten Burroughs

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

And it's all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would've happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too."
"Safe to do what?" he says in a gentler tone. "Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven't hurt people you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.
- Suzanne Collins

Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.
- Suzanne Collins

You haven't hurt peopleyou've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.
- Suzanne Collins

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
- Geoffrey Chaucer

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
- Stephen King

Be true, be brave, stand
All the rest is darkness.
- Stephen King

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- James Freeman Clarke

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
- David Levithan

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
- David Levithan

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.
- Robbie Coltrane

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
- Henry David Thoreau

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
- Sharon Creech

I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
- Kate Dicamillo

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
- Charles Dickens

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
- Thomas A Edison

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.
- Dave Eggers

Because if you love someone, you have to be brave and tell them. Don't let them go.
And if you say no I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to convince you I'm right. I promise. I won't leave you alone. Because it's not about who's whats or wheres or anything. We should be together. The other stuff doesn't matter. That's all.
- Harriet Evans

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
- Garrison Keillor

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street- lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
- Carl Sagan

Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid."
"What do you think?" his father asked.
Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?"
"That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.
- George R R Martin

Bran: Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?
Ned: That is the only time a man can be brave.
- George R R Martin

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
- George R R Martin

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.
- George R R Martin

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .
- James Alan Gardner

He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me."
We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.
- Claudia Gray

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
- Oscar Hammerstein Ii

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
- Robert Harris

Be brave, Professor. Be brave like my mother... Otherwise, you disgrace her. Otherwise, she died for nothing. Otherwise, the bowl will remain empty... forever.
- J K Rowling

Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.
- Brad Henry

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
- Dorothy Parker

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.
- Tami Hoag

It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.
- Benjamin Hoff

We are in a tight corner, now, I agree. But we have been in tight corners before and come out of them. You have to be brave a little longer.
- Mary Hoffman

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
- Dana Hussein

You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know".
- Penn Jillette

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
- Robert Jordan

Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.
- Jarod Kintz

If it's dangerous, then you go first. If it's pleasurable, then I'll be brave and lead the charge.
- Jarod Kintz

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
- Jewel Kilcher

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.
- Sophie Kinsella

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
- Dean Koontz

We all like to believe that we'd be brave. We'd be the hero in the movie, the one who sacrifices himself to save others, the one who does the right thing when the world around him is wrong. In the movie the right choice is clear. And we leave the theater feeling good about ourselves because we can say, Me, I'd do the right thing. No one says, Me, I'd be the coward. Me, I'd rat out my neighbor to save myself. But that's what people do, mostly
- Jillian Lauren

If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
- Audre Lorde

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
- Lois Lowry

To try to be brave is to be brave.
- George Macdonald

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
- Madonna

Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)
I would be true, for there are those who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are those who care;
I would be strong, for there are those who suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless;
I would be giving, and forget the gift;
I would be humble, for I know my weakness;
I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.
- John C Maxwell

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.
- Brandy Norwood

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy and productive effort into the world it will come back to you. Occasionally in ways you might not immediately understand and on a time frame you didn't expect. Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.
- Jillian Michaels

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A A Milne

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
- Margaret Mitchell

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore

Be brave, be strong, read your sacred texts, and practice death.
- Suzanne Morrison

There are four things you need to know about war. One, every action requires careful tactics. Two, never lose hope and fight only for what is right. Three, be brave but you don't have to be fearless. And four, be willing to sacrifice.
- Courtney Allison Moulton

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
- David Nicholls

Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.
- Peggy Noonan

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
- Tim O Brien

You have to choose your combinations careful. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors and hide their original beauty. There are no rules you can follow. You have to go by instinct and you have to be brave.
- Whitney Otto

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.
- Francine Pascal

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.
- Harvey Penick

Kero and Rollo stood over it, slick with blood, both holding knives.
'Kero, you came? Why?' asked Naif.
'Maybe I just needed someone to show me how to be brave enough,' he replied with a hint of a dangerous grin.
- Marianne De Pierres

Your HEART Can Overcome Anything.
So In All That You Do...Be BRAVE!
- Timothy Pina

I felt a little like saying 'Eeeeeeeeek!' myself, but seeing Myrtle so afraid reminded me that I was British, and must be brave.
- Philip Reeve

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
- Gregory David Roberts

There's a difference between fear and paralysis. And I've learned that I don't have to "grow up" to be open to opportunity, to be willing to step through doors without being pushed. I just have to be brave. I just have to be slightly braver than I am scared.
- Victoria Schwab

Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.
- Diane Setterfield

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
- Andrew Solomon

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.
- Thucydides

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
- Adriana Trigiani

To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.
- Alan Watts

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.
- Rebecca Wells

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it....Be brave....live....for me
- Joss Whedon

Dawn, the hardest thing to do in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.
- Joss Whedon

don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.
- Warren Zevon