Being Brave Quotes

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold. ~ Laurel Nakadate

Charles had climbed on a bench and was calling out that he had something to say, creating a racket that quickly got the attention of the room. Everyone looked immensely surprised, including Tessa and Will. Sona frowned, clearly thinking Charles was very rude. She didn't know the half of it, Cordelia thought darkly.
"Let me be the first to raise a glass to the happy couple!" said Charles, doing just that. "To James Herondale and Cordelia Carstairs. I wish to add personally that James, my brother's parabatai, has always been like a younger brother to me."
"A younger brother he accused of vandalizing greenhouses across our fair nation," muttered Will.
"As for Cordelia Carstairs - how to describe her?" Charles went on.
"Especially when one has not bothered to get to know her at all," murmured James.
"She is both beautiful and fair," said Charles, leaving Cordelia to wonder what the difference was, "as well as being brave. I am sure she will make James as happy as my lovely Grace makes me." He smiled at Grace, who stood quietly near him, her face a mask. "That's right. I am formally announcing my intention to wed Grace Blackthorn. You will all be invited, of course."
Cordelia glanced over at Alastair; he was expressionless, but his hands, jammed into his pockets, were fists. James had narrowed his eyes.
Charles went on merrily. "And lastly, my thanks go out to the folk of the Enclave, who supported my actions as acting Consul through our recent t ~ Cassandra Clare

Being brave alone does not make us smart. ~ Caragh M. O'Brien

If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted. ~ Gary Haugen

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle ~ Chogyam Trungpa

The hardest part is being brave so that nobody knows that you are sad all the time. ~ Kate Le Vann

I thought back to the counselling sessions, how we'd talked about thinking things through rationally, recognizing unhelpful patterns of behaviour and being brave enough to try doing things differently. ~ Gail Honeyman

Being brave was tiring. No wonder everybody in Conley Holler looked faded and worn out. ~ Lisa Lewis Tyre

The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for. ~ Bernhard Schlink

She hadn't been Rachel that night. She was evidence, a body of things to be picked and probed at, pictured and asked about, recorded and quoted. I want my life back. The voice was faint inside her own mind. She could hear the plaintive, almost despairing note to that voice. Like the wail of a scared child, this wasn't just about facing her fears. This was about everything. Her injuries, the loss of the life and world she'd once taken for granted, her long recovery. ~ Anais Torres

It's not about being good. It's about being brave. ~ Lana M. H. Wilder

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in. ~ Robyn Davidson

The thing about being brave is it doesn't come with the absence of fear and hurt. Bravery is the ability to look fear and hurt in the face and say move aside, you are in the way. ~ Melissa Tumino

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them. ~ Mandy Hale

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do. ~ Aimee Carter

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway. ~ Meg Cabot

Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear. ~ Nely Cab

Yet no matter what happened tomorrow, or next week, or next year, she was grateful. Grateful to the gods, to fate, to herself for being brave enough to kiss him that night. Grateful for this little bit of time she'd been given with him. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do. ~ Anne Holm

We done something brave and good here ... Maybe [we] don't want to be deprived a any a the things that go along with being brave and good. Even the bad. ~ Kathryn Stockett

The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and lucrative) fantasy with nothing to back it up.

Or, as Susan Brownmiller put it when I asked her what she made of all this, "You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit. ~ Ariel Levy

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You ~ Christopher McDougall

You must be like the mourning bird, do you remember? That it's in the process of striving for her perfect song that she conquers fear and triumphs. Being brave can't always put things in black and white, but it can be a pretty good beginning, Elyse - a fresh start. ~ Lee Fullbright

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. ~ Lev Grossman

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave. ~ Tami Hoag

This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things. ~ Leslie Feinberg

Being brave and being alone aren't the same thing. ~ Lyndsay Faye

If you are not brave, say you are, then be it. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life. ~ G-Eazy

Beauty and Bravery
When I set out to find my father, I was not being brave. I was acting out of fear or losing the only parent I ever had. They may want you to believe I was simple being brave, but anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat. ~ Nikita Gill

This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before. ~ Cassandra Clare

Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts! ~ Mel Brooks

Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger. ~ Janaki Sooriyarachchi

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue. ~ Susan Sontag

'Betchya Got A Cure' is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It's about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted. ~ Sophie B. Hawkins

My father always seems to think greatness and money are the same thing, but you know what I think greatness is?"

"What?" I ask.

"Being brave, like Miss Korzynski. Doing something that no one else has dared to do before you. Finding something that terrifies you and then doing it anyway. ~ Jillian Cantor

To see yourself the way God sees you is the first step in being brave. ~ Annie F. Downs

You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there. ~ Evan Rachel Wood

You don't get paid for being brave! ~ William Vacchiano

Maybe being brave was not highly desireable in women. Normal women would have fled, like Pansy. ~ Maureen Doyle McQuerry

There's no way to tell him, if she tried she knows she'd only start crying, that there's this girl in England who's never met him and never will and he's saved her life more times over than he'll ever know, because she knows Blackbindings - Blackbindings who writes like an angel, like she knows what suffering is and she knows how much knowing that matters, who writes so far beyond her years with the sort of control Draxie knows she'll never have - Blackbindings who is so shy she can barely bring herself to reblog anything, Blackbindings who just has one of the sweetest, quietest, kindest souls Draxie thinks she's ever known and the sort of brain chemistry that you fight every day of your life, she doesn't know if Blackbindings would still be here if it wasn't for him. If she was trapped in this world that breaks her heart and breaks her down, she doesn't know how long that girl would have lasted if she didn't think about him being brave for everyone else, caring about everyone else, maybe caring about her, trapped in her own mind an ocean away, using up all the strength she has just to not hurt herself. There are weeks when she cries every single day. And thinks about him, she says. And then she can make herself breathe. ~ Rainjoy

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you ... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it. ~ Tom Wilkinson

If you can go through life being brave enough to run toward the things you deserve, and the people and the things that you love, then you will be rewarded with so much love and so much joy in return. ~ Elle Botz

I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway? ~ Kate Forsyth

Do you know that most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death?" Rachel raised a skeptical brow as she spoke. "Let's just say, I've lost interest." -Being Brave Again ~ Anais Torres

Being brave for bravery's sake isn't much better than being beautiful for beauty's sake. ~ Evangeline Denmark

Maybe having a friend and caring for them no matter what happened was what being brave was all about. ~ Kerry Alan Denney

It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn't about being brave. True beauty isn't about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy. ~ R.K. Ryals

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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

Opinion. Love meant being brave, otherwise you had already lost your own argument: the man who couldn't tell a woman he loved her was, by definition, not worthy of her. ~ Nick Hornby

People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid. ~ Darren Hardy

Oh, honey, being scared but still doing the right thing is what being brave is all about. ~ Kerry Alan Denney

The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up. ~ Brene Brown

Maybe that is all any bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave. ~ Audre Lorde

Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age. ~ Betsy Cornwell

In that moment, we were all witness to the dark truth that no matter where you are, how safe you feel, there are sometimes bad people looking for an opportunity to do bad things. And it's not all about winning against them; it's about being brave and not losing against yourself. ~ Watt Key

It's not being brave if you aren't scared. ~ Erin Entrada Kelly

If your not brave enough to talk to a stranger how do you think they will become anything more then a stranger. ~ Eden Griffith

A horse is wonderfully sensitive for an animal of his size and strength. He is timid by nature and his courage comes only from his confidence in man. His speed, strength, and endurance he will willingly give, and give it to the utmost, if the hand that guides is strong and gentle, and the voice that controls is firm, confident, and friendly. Lack of courage in the master takes from the horse his only chance of being brave; lack of steadiness makes him indirect and futile; lack of kindness frightens him into actions which are the result of terror at first, and which become vices only by mismanagement. ~ John Williams Streeter

There's a fine line between being brave and just not giving a shit anymore. ~ Sara Furlong Burr

Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare! ~ Manuela George-Izunwa

Girls are like Pokemon, it doesn't matter how good you are, you can't catch any if you don't have any balls. ~ Auliq Ice

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. ~ Bear Grylls

During the war, I was constantly afraid Chris would die. What made it worse was that he told me many times that he wanted to die on the battlefield.
Let me refine that.
He didn't want to die, but if he had to die, then he couldn't imagine anything better than dying on the battlefield. It was part of his sense of duty: dying on the battlefield would mean that he had been doing his utmost to protect others. There was no higher calling, and no higher proof of dedication, for Chris. So there was no sense fearing death in combat. It would be an honor.
That idea hurt me. I knew my husband wasn't reckless--far from it--but in war there is a very thin line between being brave and being foolish, and when Chris talked like that I worried the line might be crossed.
I started going to church more during his first deployment, and eventually went to women's Bible studies to learn more about the Bible. But fitting the idea of God and faith and service together was never easy. What should I pray for? My husband to live, certainly. But wasn't that selfish? What if that wasn't God's will?
I prayed Chris would make the right decision when it came time to reenlist or leave the Navy. I wanted him to leave, yet that wasn't exactly what I prayed for.
Yet I was disappointed when he reenlisted. Was I disappointed with God, or Chris?
Had my prayers even been heard?
If it was God's plan that he reenlist, I should have been at peace with it. Yet I can't say that ~ Taya Kyle

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby ... it inspires him. ~ Ina May Gaskin

Cupping her face, I brushed her lips with my thumb. "You're medicine for my soul, Bailey. Never forget that."
Her naughty gaze shifted into something softer. "Thank you for being brave enough to love me."
Despite her earnest expression, I laughed. "Like I had a choice. ~ Bijou Hunter

Wylan looked back at the water. He'd started to think of Jesper as fearless, but maybe being brave didn't mean being unafraid. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Being brave ... is not always being unafraid. Maybe it's more like doing what you know is right even when you're too tired. Or scared. It's going on and doing it anyway ... even when you think you can't take one more step. ~ Bodie Thoene

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong

The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men in general, before they must die. That is the amulet which preserves individuals - and sometimes populations - not from danger, but from the fear of danger, in reality from the belief in danger, which in some cases allows them to brave it without being brave. Such a confidence, just as unfounded, supports the lover who counts on a reconciliation, a letter. ~ Marcel Proust

The situations of fear that exist in our lives provide us with stepping stones to step over our fear. On the other side of cowardice is bravery. If we step over properly, we can cross the boundary from being cowardly to being brave. ~ Chogyam Trungpa

Being brave doesn't mean you're never afraid. Being brave means that, even though you're scared, you still do what you should do. ~ Judith McNaught

What are we doing, Jake?" she whispered.
"I don't know".
"What are being?"
Now he understood.
"Brave," he whispered back. "We're being brave. ~ Alex North

Be brave. Charlotte had said the same back to Molly, and now her best friend was living a Technicolor life full of adventure, love, and passionate happiness. It was a future neither one of them could've predicted. Being brave had its rewards. ~ Nalini Singh

About being brave", she explained at the question on his face. "I liked what you were saying. And it seems to me... it seems to me that it takes just as much courage to fight windmills as it does to fight the real giants or the monsters or whatever it was in the story. ~ Noelle Adams

Does anyone ever get tired of being brave, Prosper?" I put my tiny hand in his.

He squeezed it gently and said," Sure they do little darlin', people get tired of being brave all the time."

"What happens then, Prosper?" I was looking at him now, the weight of the world on my shoulders.

I heard something catch in the back of his throat and he had to clear it before he went on. "Why they call on someone who has some brave left over, that's what they do honey."

"Prosper?"

"Yes Raine?"

"Do you have any brave left over?"

"Little darlin', just so happens I been saving up a bunch of brave just for you. ~ Paula Marinaro

Interview - two years of practicing being brave and putting myself out there - and vulnerability is still uncomfortable and falling still hurts. It always will. But I'm learning that the process of struggling and navigating hurt has as much to offer us as the process of being brave and showing up. ~ Brene Brown

Being brave doesn't mean not being scared. It means overcoming your fear to do what you have to do. ~ Alan Gratz

So being brave doesn't mean you're not scared, then." "It means you're scared, and you do what you have to do in spite of it. ~ Mark Frost

How ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave. ~ Kate Morton

Most people who have achieved a modicum of success right after they graduated did it by being brave and laughing at anyone who told them no. ~ Ryan O'Connell

She was scared, but she was trying; in order to get what she wanted she was pushing past her own bullshit fears and being brave. In her voice, he could hear every dark and forbidden thing she craved. And he wanted to give it to her. Everything she wanted and the things she didn't know to want, yet.
How far would she go?
She wanted dark? He had all the dark. All of it. And he'd show her every midnight corner of it. ~ Molly O'Keefe

I don't think that being unafraid is the same as being brave. I think bravery is when you go on even though you are frightened. -Alexander tells Arsinoe ~ Emily Holleman

The Truth the Dead Know


For my Mother, born March 1902, died March 1959
and my Father, born February 1900, died June 1959

Gone, I say and walk from church,
refusing the stiff procession to the grave,
letting the dead ride alone in the hearse.
It is June. I am tired of being brave.

We drive to the Cape. I cultivate
myself where the sun gutters from the sky,
where the sea swings in like an iron gate
and we touch. In another country people die.

My darling, the wind falls in like stones
from the whitehearted water and when we touch
we enter touch entirely. No one's alone.
Men kill for this, or for as much.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Anne Sexton was a model who became a confessional poet, writing about intimate aspects of her life, after her doctor suggested that she take up poetry as a form of therapy. She studied under Robert Lowell at Boston University, where Sylvia Plath was one of her classmates. Sexton won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967, but later committed suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning. Topics she covered in her poems included adultery, masturbation, menstruation, abortion, despair and suicide. ~ Anne Sexton

She knew now that the trick to being brave was not thinking of the worst thing that could happen. It was a weird thing - if you acted brave, you could almost feel brave. ~ Jude Watson

Our host drifted away, and Vidia and I continued chatting about this and that. Swift judgments came down. The simplicity in Hemingway was "bogus" and nothing, Vidia said, like his own. Things Fall Apart was a fine book, but Achebe's refusal to write about his decades in America was disappointing. Heart of Darkness was good, but structurally a failure. I asked him about the biography by Patrick French, The World Is What It Is, which he had authorized. He stiffened. That book, which was extraordinarily well written, was also shocking in the extent to which it revealed a nasty, petty, and insecure man. "One gives away so much in trust," Vidia said. "One expects a certain discretion. It's painful, it's painful. But that's quite all right. Others will be written. The record will be corrected." He sounded like a boy being brave after gashing his thumb. The ~ Teju Cole

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 away or not. But then you should still do it. Because any other way is cowardice. At the end of the day, it's about being brave and we are only haunted by the ghosts that we trap within ourselves; we are not haunted by the ghosts that we let out. We are haunted by the ghosts that we cover and hide. So you let those ghosts out in that best piece of your heart that you give to someone. And if the other person throws it away? Or doesn't want it to begin with? Someone else will come along one day, cut out from his/her heart that exact same jagged shape that you cut out of your own heart, and make their piece of heart fit into the rest of yours. Wait for that person. And you can fill their missing piece with your soul. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it. ~ Emilie Autumn

I killed my ex lovers
and buried to my memories' grave.
It is January
And I am tired of being brave. ~ Arzum Uzun

But as someone famous (it was either Winston Churchill or Rocky Balboa) once said, 'Being brave ain't about not being punched, it's about being punched but continuing to come back to get punched over and over again'. ~ Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter

Being brave means you create the world you want to live in. ~ Andrea T. Goeglein

Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents. ~ Phil Jackson

Thank you for saying you love me. Not just for saying it, but for being brave enough to tell me how you feel.
I'm not as brave as you. And maybe I'm a little more damaged than you...carrying more baggage. I'm not ready to tell you I love you, but you do need to know that you've been the best part of my life since we met, and I can't imagine moving on without you.
I want to see where this goes. And once you're out of here, I want to date. Really date.
Until then, we need to cool off. You're really good at making me take chances. That sounds like I'm blaming you - I'm not. It's a good thing. You make me brave and wild. You excite me, and make me exciting. I don't regret the risks we've taken, but I can't take any more for a while.
And we have to talk about what happened under the poplar tree the other night. You said some things that make me want to take a big step back from this.
You asked me to do something I'd never ask of you. I didn't mean to sound cruel, bringing up your injury like I did, but it doesn't make sense that you say you love me, but want me to risk the chance to do a job I've been called to do. We need to figure that out, ok?
Thanks for reading all this. It's what's been on my mind all week, and I needed to get it off my chest. ~ Peter Styles

I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better. ~ Peter S. Beagle

There is a "yoga body" aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, "Wow, you're so brave," simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words. ~ Kathryn Budig

Being brave means that you're the only one who knows how scared you really are. ~ Deborah Rix

Being brave doesn't mean always having to fight alone. ~ Esther M. Friesner

What man is such a coward he would rather not fall once than stand forever tottering? Most people totter their whole lives. They never let themselves fall, never take the hit. They just go along, trying to do what they think they're supposed to. They never try to find out what's true for them, because that would mean being brave in a way people aren't. ~ Estelle Laure

Being brave isn't the same as being okay," my mum said quietly. ~ Candice Carty-Williams