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To Be Brave Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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