Top 100 Bravery Is Quotes
#1. Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
Pema Chodron
#2. Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed.
Gerard De Marigny
#3. Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.
Stuart Wilde
#4. In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.
Sakyong Mipham
#5. You cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
Maia Wojciechowska
#6. Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.
Mickey Mantle
#7. Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.
Amie Kaufman
#9. Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.
Andrea Cremer
#10. Recklessness makes you act. Bravery is following through.
Leah Raeder
#11. You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
James Jones
#12. Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks that most people will in a lifetime.
Veronica Roth
#14. I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.
Sandra Bernhard
#15. Don't let yourself be blinded by your rage in quarrels, that will only lead to mistakes and death, and remember that bravery is worth nothing if it's not matched by intelligence.
Anonymous
#17. True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.
Sara Bareilles
#18. Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.
Fred Dryer
#20. Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar N. Bradley
#21. I think bravery is a lot less formal than it sounds. Bravery is being able to have a conversation with a stranger. It's going back to school even after years of being away. It's being you even when it's easier to be someone else.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
#22. Bravery is an amazing and aggressive teacher. Its gives me the energy to dive into life, recover from disappointment, and mentally escape whatever locked door holds me in.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
#23. Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.
Jeremy Brett
#24. My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
Charles Dickens
#25. Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway.
Cheryl Strayed
#26. Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#27. Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising.
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
Richard Gere
#31. Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you.
P.I. Barrington
#33. Bravery, after all, isn't the absence of fear. Bravery is the acknowledgement and the conquering of fear.
Derek Landy
#34. 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
#35. We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That's what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
M.L. Stedman
#36. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
Pema Chodron
#37. A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
Maaza Mengiste
#38. I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile?
Douglas Kennedy
#39. Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Napoleon Hill
#41. If bravery is a medical condition, everybody's misdiagnosed me.
Angie Thomas
#42. Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid
Robert Liparulo
#43. Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
Hank Green
#44. Bravery is not an act of intelligence; it is just selfishness and stupidity.
M.F. Moonzajer
#45. Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save somebody else's life when your own is in danger.
Claire Sylvia
#46. To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.
Sophie Turner
#47. Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#48. In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust
#50. If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
Xun Zi
#51. The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
Euripides
#54. Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart ...
Aishah Madadiy
#55. The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.
Gillian Roberts
#57. Sometimes one act of bravery is better than a life lived as a coward.
-Mukta
Amita Trasi
#58. The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck
#62. 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
#63. Bravery is standing with the truth and right
Imran Khan
#64. Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#65. The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.
Steven Cuoco
#66. Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.
Taylor Swift
#67. Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you're going to get knocked down again.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#68. I'm not sure bravery is something you acquire more of with age, like wisdom
but maybe here, in Dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom, the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear.
Veronica Roth
#69. Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.
Gayle Forman
#70. Sometimes bravery is just getting on with things.
A.F. Harrold
#71. Bravery is a choice that is yours to make. Don't let fear steal your will.
Erin Summerill
#72. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
E.W. Howe
#73. 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.
Donna Lynn Hope
#74. Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.
El Cordobes
#76. The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
Chogyam Trungpa
#77. True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#78. Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway.
Jack Campbell
#79. Bravery is the acknowledgment and the conquering of fear.
Derek Landy
#80. Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
#81. It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.
Gail Tsukiyama
#82. Bravery is measured by how hard you try, not by whether you actually succeed.
Nancy Straight
#83. Stupidity is singing the rebel anthem and hoping you won't get caught, Tucker," he had chided her. "But bravery is singing it proudly, hoping the king will come to fight you personally.
Emory Sharplin
#84. Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
Adam Duritz
#85. Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.
Garth Nix
#86. Bravery is when you walk into a battle you are not sure of winning.
Jeffrey Fry
#87. Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.
Corey Aaron Burkes
#88. Who is the brave man
he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
Geraldine Brooks
#89. I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.
Audie Murphy
#90. A man who is fearless is neither coward nor brave for bravery is just a cover up for cowardice.
Osho
#91. IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy Convent steps onto the battlefield courage is often found to be in short supply. She
Mark Lawrence
#92. Yes," he whispered harshly, "I am afraid. But I will defeat you, all the same. It is you who cannot - will not be allowed to prevail. I swear this by the living Name of the One.
D.R. Ranshaw
#93. Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#94. There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
Barbara Boxer
#95. To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds.
- Matthias
Brian Jacques
#97. What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#98. 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
#99. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#100. The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
Friedrich Nietzsche
