Not Brave Enough Quotes

#1. I'm not brave enough to love you
The same way
You're not strong enough to take me on.

Dawn Lanuza

#2. I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.

Eva Green

#3. One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

Gunter Grass

#4. A good friends should be able to tell you anything. Maybe your boyfriend's screwing around, or a dress that makes your love handles hang over like a shar-pei's skin? In either case, if they're not brave enough to tell it like it is? They're not your best friend.

Emma Chase

#5. To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

Rupert Everett

#6. A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

Alexander Skarsgard

#7. the path your life is stuck on and be free

It's a dark whisper calling to me.

But I'm not brave enough to listen. I'm old enough to know I don't have any special talents. So no matter how depressing... I have to suck it up... And live the life I have.

Inio Asano

#8. And some, like me, sit down and write because we're not brave enough to live or die.

V.J. Campilan

#9. I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Corita Kent

#10. Blessed be those who say: 'I'm not brave enough.' Because they know that it is not someone else's fault. And sooner or later, they will find the necessary faith to confront solitude and it's mysteries.

Paulo Coelho

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

Eden Griffith

#12. I'm not a follower, but I'm not brave enough to be the leader either. I don't see this as a flaw; it's a strength, really. Leaders get burned for having strong opinions. I get to have them without the pretentious bravado.

Tarryn Fisher

#13. I was smart enough to know it was wrong, but not brave enough to stop them.

Sylvain Neuvel

#14. Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.

Rita Rudner

#15. Because I'm not brave enough to change with everyone watching me. I want to do it alone. I want it to be real.

Tarryn Fisher

#16. They were not brave enough to accept her as she came.
She made her own path where she found herself,
she followed it to her own people.

Tina J. Richardson

#17. You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Ah, the relationships we get into just to get out of the ones we are not brave enough to say are over.

Julia Phillips

#19. If I had multiple lives, I'd like to do many things, including being a homicide investigator. I'm not brave enough to chase people and draw down on them. Having spent time with that, it can be an incredibly terrifying job.

Veena Sud

#20. I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.

William H. Macy

#21. There's no need to tell me I'm not brave enough to be in Gryffindor, Malfoy's already done that," Neville choked out.

J.K. Rowling

#22. I am not brave enough to be a coward," she said. "I see the consequences too clearly

Ayn Rand

#23. She is staring into hell and I'm not brave enough to join her.

Daniel H. Wilson

#24. Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.

Allen Iverson

#25. I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay.

Diana Gabaldon

#26. To those who refuse to be blinded by the glare, or deafened by the hush, who are brave enough to question, and curious enough to explore. To those who will not forget. You will make a difference. And to the rest of us, so that we may learn how.

Zana Fraillon

#27. It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try.

Alexandra Bracken

#28. Being different is not bad. It means you are brave enough to be yourself.....

Unknown

#29. Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

Andrea Dworkin

#30. Have I not had enough time with my brave warrior to learn that she bends without breaking, that her courage is her strength and her grace the light sustaining her heart?

Lucy Varna

#31. I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

Paula Hawkins

#32. I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

Jasmine Guy

#33. We have to take flight. It's not given to us, served up on a pretty, parsley-bordered platter. We have to take wing. Was I brave enough to do that? Or would I be content to remain earthbound?

Elizabeth J. Church

#34. That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.

Helen H. Gardener

#35. She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.

Laini Taylor

#36. 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

#37. She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

William Faulkner

#38. 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

#39. We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because that's how I am. The information comes out because I am brave enough to allow it. I'm not brave as a human being in everyday life. I'm brave when I'm acting.

Charlotte Rampling

#40. Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians ... Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.

Spencer Antle

#41. Be brave, be bold, my dear, but do not be too bold. Do not go looking for trouble. It has a way of finding you on its own, soon enough.
-Rose

Rafe Martin

#42. It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

B.J. Novak

#43. I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability? To be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.

Reese Witherspoon

#44. Choosing courage does not mean that we're unafraid, it means that we are brave enough to love despite the fear and uncertainty.

Brene Brown

#45. Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

Frank Warren

#46. As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

V.E Schwab

#47. 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

#48. Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#49. In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Chuck Schumer

#50. When will being independent and strong and not following the pack and daring to be different and being brave in my opinions, my fashion choices and my hair colour be enough?

Sarra Manning

#51. He had a strange way of talking, his head tucked into his neck and his eyes fixed in the empty space beyond, as if something were suspended there, ripe fruit or a glimmer of light, as if he were not quite brave enough, or perhaps too polite, to look a person in the eye.

Jan Ellison

#52. Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud?

Maira Kalman

#53. Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

Larry McMurtry

#54. 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

#55. Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in.

Debasish Mridha

#56. There are not enough morally brave men in stock. We are out of moral-courage material; we are in a condition of profound poverty.

Mark Twain

#57. 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

#58. We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#59. Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

William Faulkner

#60. You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

Sandra Cisneros

#61. You can become very reclusive in Hollywood. This gave us permission to be able to open up and be intimate with somebody that you might not normally be kind of brave enough or confident enough to do so with.

Evan Rachel Wood

#62. It's meant to strip you bare in order to heal. Be brave enough not to fight it. Surrender, my boy. Let go. For just once, have the courage to let go.

Mia Sheridan

#63. 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

#64. I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

Danielle Steel

#65. 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

#66. Humans are interdependent by choice. You have a burden of guilt, and it's brave of you to want to carry it yourself. But it's foolish not to let others help you. Give some of it away to your parents and your friends. And when they need your help, you'll be strong enough to support them, too.

Sarina Bowen

#67. Because sometimes I lie, Perry. We all lie, even you, but not everyone is brave enough to admit it.

Karina Halle

#68. Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.

Jay Woodman

#69. If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

Peter Davison