Top 100 Quotes About Being Brave
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Sometimes being brave means having to leave things behind and taking that step forward without looking back.
Tanya
#4. 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
#5. Oh, honey, being scared but still doing the right thing is what being brave is all about.
Kerry Alan Denney
#8. 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
#9. Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don' look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#10. Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#11. 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
#12. We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple reason we want to own, integrate, and share our stories of struggle. We do this because we feel the most alive when we're connecting with others and being brave with our stories - it's in our biology.
Brene Brown
#13. If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.
Kerry Greenwood
#14. As I've said before, there is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.
Patrick Rothfuss
#15. Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
Penelope Leach
#16. 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
#17. It is June. I am tired of being brave.
Anne Sexton
#18. Maybe having a friend and caring for them no matter what happened was what being brave was all about.
Kerry Alan Denney
#20. Maybe sometimes the only right choice is the wrong one, and what it really comes down to is being brave enough to make it.
Shannon Messenger
#21. 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
#22. I'd been on the precipice of being brave, and nothing can make a person more foolish and vulnerable than bravery.
Penny Reid
#23. 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
#24. Being brave is not a part of your
personality, it's your job. It's what you owe the people who love you.
Kate Le Vann
#25. I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.
Amy Bloom
#26. And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shift, go home alive." She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard
just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.
Tamora Pierce
#27. Being brave doesn't mean you're not scared.
Neil Gaiman
#28. 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
#29. You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.
Joe Torre
#30. Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.
Neil Gaiman
#31. I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.
Peter S. Beagle
#32. I killed my ex lovers
and buried to my memories' grave.
It is January
And I am tired of being brave.
Arzum Uzun
#33. Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear.
Nely Cab
#34. To see yourself the way God sees you is the first step in being brave.
Annie F. Downs
#35. Being brave means that you're the only one who knows how scared you really are.
Deborah Rix
#36. Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.
Lana Del Rey
#37. 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
#38. The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up.
Brene Brown
#39. 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
#40. Being brave for bravery's sake isn't much better than being beautiful for beauty's sake.
Evangeline Denmark
#41. 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
#42. Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.
Lana Del Rey
#43. We're sick of being afraid and we're tired of hustling for our self-worth. We want to be brave, and deep inside we know that being brave requires us to be vulnerable.
Brene Brown
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. You are on the floor crying,
and you have been on the floor crying
for days.
And that is you being brave.
That is you getting through it
as best you know how.
No one else can decide
What your tough looks like.
Clementine Von Radics
#48. We would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave.
Blaise Pascal
#49. 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
#50. I have to hold that up as a metaphor for everything, being prepared and then being brave enough to just be there. Just listen and follow, maybe jump. Everyone leans in, it brings them into your emotional vicinity because, you said "Risk creates intimacy
Mary-Louise Parker
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Bear Grylls
#54. I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I've ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?
Cassandra Clare
#55. Being brave isn't the same as not being scared, though, it means going through with something even if it totally terrifies you.
Kara Taylor
#56. Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.
Lev Grossman
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby ... it inspires him.
Ina May Gaskin
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.
Sorin Cerin
#63. 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
#64. My daddy always said being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.
Susan Crandall
#65. The hardest part is being brave so that nobody knows that you are sad all the time.
Kate Le Vann
#66. Hustle tries. Then it fails. Then it tries again, because of grit, which is simply being brave when you don't feel like being brave.
Jon Acuff
#67. There's a fine line between being brave and just not giving a shit anymore.
Sara Furlong Burr
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Isn't that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?
Winna Efendi
#72. Why was I so hung up on anyone being brave? So what if 90 percent of artists, or people for that matter, were meek?
Peter Heller
#73. Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#74. 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
#75. People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.
Darren Hardy
#76. Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
Banks
#77. Being brave and being alone aren't the same thing.
Lyndsay Faye
#78. 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
#79. There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
Confucius
#80. Being brave isn't not being afraid. Being brave is being afraid and going ahead and doing what you have to do.
S'TarKan
#82. To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.
Bill Maher
#83. Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside ... It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
Sarah Dessen
#84. It has taken my whole life thus far to see how being brave enough to hold on to a question, brave enough to never stop looking for answers, and brave enough to take action even when I didn't know the right answer, was as brave as I needed to be to succeed and to succeed with love.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#85. In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don't feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.
Charlotte Pearson
#86. 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
#87. Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love is being brave and saying what you feel. Love is making music or playing tennis; it's doing what you want to do. Love is holding on and not letting go.
Robert Corbet
#89. 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
#90. But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.
Tami Hoag
#91. He said he didn't want to brave yet, and I simply replied with being brave isn't an option in this world.
Shuno
#92. Maybe being brave was not highly desireable in women. Normal women would have fled, like Pansy.
Maureen Doyle McQuerry
#93. 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
#94. I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
Talib Kweli
#95. 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
#96. I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.
Henry Rollins
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.
Bernhard Schlink
#100. Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.
Veronica Roth
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