Top 100 Brave Fear Quotes
#1. Tomorrow, said the voice of fear in her head. It always said, tomorrow, whether it talked about going to the grocery store or starting a new painting. Tomorrow you'll be brave, fear whispered. Tomorrow you'll be normal. Just give me today. That was how fear stole whole lives away.
Dana Marton
#2. Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
#4. The truly brave man is not the man who does not feel fear but the man who overcomes it.
H.G.Wells
#5. Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?
Lemony Snicket
#6. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#7. A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every time, until you were alone and gasping for breath.
Conn Iggulden
#8. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Veronica Roth
#9. To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must. People who put change ahead of all things are those who make a difference!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
David Halberstam
#11. The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.
Confucius
#12. Bravery may be observed when a person tramples one fear whilst in secret flight from a greater terror. And those whose greatest terror is being thought a coward are always brave. I, on the other hand, am a coward.
Mark Lawrence
#13. Time was, I shrank from what was right, From fear of what was wrong; I would not brave the sacred fight, Because the foe was strong. But now I cast that finer sense And sorer shame aside; Such dread of sin was indolence, Such aim at heaven was pride. J. H. NEWMAN.
Mary W. Tileston
#14. Fear always reaches a breaking point and turns into anxiety or rage, and I don't have enough storage space for more fear in my life. Namely when it involves people I've never even met.
Scaachi Koul
#15. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.
Sun Tzu
#17. I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster
#18. Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
Penelope Leach
#19. If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton
#20. It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way.
Bryant McGill
#21. It's not bravery if you don't feel fear, right? If you're not afraid, then you're not really forcing yourself to do something brave.
Liz Braswell
#22. So the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
Pema Chodron
#23. Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful.
Mitch Albom
#24. I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
Taya Kyle
#25. It's rage and fear leaving our bodies. Though space drags us across the floor to its embrace. Though death might come for us. I am home in this weird screaming mass of humanity. And as we pretend to be brave, we become so.
Pierce Brown
#26. Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone
Tacitus
#27. The way to be brave was to behave as if she were not afraid, even though she was.
C.J. Brightley
#29. Only weak resist change, brave go ahead and accept it.
Sukant Ratnakar
#30. What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges
G-Dragon
#31. What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
Marlon Brando
#32. Being brave doesn't mean you're not scared.
Neil Gaiman
#34. What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.
John Connolly
#36. Celaena Sardothien, arrogant and brave and skilled, Celaena who did not know fear or despair, Celaena who was a weapon hones by Death.
Sarah J. Maas
#37. If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
#38. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#39. Those who are truly brave, shall never live in fear.
Dwayne Johnson
#40. The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them.
Vironika Tugaleva
#41. One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
Bear Grylls
#43. Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear.
Nely Cab
#44. Fear flickered in her eyes for a beat but she continued to stare up at me, right into my eyes, trying to be brave. I liked it. I liked it a lot. Yeah, I'm a sick fucker. And the only thing scarier than a sick fucker is a sick fucker with power.
D.D. Prince
#45. I hate being judged all the time and having to hide my fear, my emotions, my vulnerabilities. You think I'm a brave, talented young woman, who is never intimidated by anything. Well, you're wrong. Everything intimidates me. I avoid glances, smiles, close contact.
Paulo Coelho
#46. My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.
Anna White
#47. BRAVE
To be brave is to behave
bravely when your heart is faint.
So you can be really brave
only when you really ain't.
Piet Hein
#48. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. "You shouldn't feel so bad about being afraid of so many things." "Why not?" "Because if you weren't afraid never ever, then you couldn't be brave never ever.
C. JoyBell C.
#50. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end ... and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
William James
#51. When men fear work or fear righteous war, when women fear motherhood, they tremble on the brink of doom; and well it is that they should vanish from the earth, where they are fit subjects for the scorn of all men and women who are themselves strong and brave and high-minded.
Theodore Roosevelt
#52. As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.
Madeleine L'Engle
#53. But even brave people are afraid on occasion. Sometimes fear can protect us from being too foolish or reckless.
Jody Hedlund
#55. The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.
Francine Pascal
#56. After all, my young Dodger, what exactly are you? A stalwart young man, plucky and brave and apparently without fear? Or, possibly, I suggest, a street urchin with a surfeit of animal cunning and the luck of Beelzebub himself.
Terry Pratchett
#57. Because creative living is a path for the brave. We all know this. And we all know that when courage dies, creativity dies with it. We all know that fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#58. I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
Giordano Bruno
#59. So he died, because for a split-second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split-second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic.
Lee Child
#60. It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges Bernanos
#61. 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
#62. Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.
Thomas Paine
#63. I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else
it's in myself ... I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits.
Jon Krakauer
#64. Courage doesn't defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.
Lauren Oliver
#66. Do you think bravery means to be without fear? You are greatly mistaken. You are brave not because of your lack of fear, but because you did not let that fear stop you. That is what true bravery is.
Sarah Holman
#67. They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.
Luigina Sgarro
#68. 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.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#69. The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.
Lori Lansens
#70. Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Bear Grylls
#71. The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#72. The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and gripped by anxiety about their every action, wondering if they are right or wrong. And yet nevertheless, they act.
Paulo Coelho
#73. It's not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it's the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.
Richie Norton
#74. 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
#75. The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.
Charles Spurgeon
#76. But being brave isn't about living every minute exhilarated. It's about waking up and knowing that despite the worry and the sadness and the deep, dark fear, you're going to go forth anyway. That you're going to try anyway. That you have a choice, and you're going to choose to live, today, bravely.
E. Katherine Kottaras
#77. There's not a man alive who doesn't know fear, Dickon. The brave man is the one who has learned to hide it, that's all
Sharon Kay Penman
#78. I don't regret or fear my problems and roadblocks. They have made me brave and given me the opportunity to overcome them.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Napoleon Hill
#80. The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
Tacitus
#81. The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence of fear, to go to those places that you think you can't write - really that's exactly what you need to write.
Cheryl Strayed
#82. it wasn't that we had been so brave or bold, but that we'd simply traded one fear for another - afraid of what we were about to do for the fear of what we might not. "How
Craig Johnson
#83. Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.
George R R Martin
#84. That's the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it's forced to flee.
Mandy Hale
#85. 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
#86. She'd made those choices out of fear, and she wasn't afraid anymore. From now on, if something was important to her, she would demand it. Because the truth was that she belonged anywhere she wanted to be, and she was beautiful just for being brave.
Victoria Helen Stone
#87. If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave?
Tove Jansson
#88. Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.
Teri Hall
#89. Be brave enough to never yearn For that you cannot hold close In your heart forever. Tread lightly, cherish compassion And live in the moment without fear.
Scott Hastie
#90. Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Emma Donoghue
#91. You are a member of my court. And as such, you answer to me. You are wise, and brave, and a joy - but we are headed into dark, horrible places where even I fear to tread.
Sarah J. Maas
#92. I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.
Veronica Roth
#93. Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.
Jo Baer
#94. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
#95. 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
#96. Healing is that place where we step into 20 seconds of insane courage because we need to either close that door or hold it open. Regardless of the outcome, the truth is what sets you free never the fear of not knowing.
Shannon L. Alder
#97. Isn't that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?
Winna Efendi
#98. But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#99. Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become.
Mary Weber
#100. That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.
Susan Meissner
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