Top 100 Quotes About Brave People
#1. The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#2. Courage doesnt tell you to let go when you know what to grab next. Brave people let go when its time to let go.
Annie F. Downs
#3. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]
Chapman Cohen
#4. 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
#5. To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
Luigi Barzini
#6. Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
Townsend Harris
#8. Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.
Sarah Ruhl
#9. But even brave people are afraid on occasion. Sometimes fear can protect us from being too foolish or reckless.
Jody Hedlund
#10. Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
Elizabeth Edwards
#12. In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
John L. Phillips
#13. Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
D.H. Lawrence
#14. The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
Cyndi Lauper
#16. I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.
Ann Rinaldi
#17. It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
Biz Stone
#20. I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.
Troye Sivan
#21. Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.
Robin Sharma
#22. I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
Alexander The Great
#23. As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.
Tulsi Gabbard
#24. Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.
Richard Branson
#25. Hard roads are not opened by themselves; they are opened by some brave people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. I've met some brave people in my life. And I've met some awfully stupid people. You're one of the rare ones that are both.
James Dashner
#27. THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
George Mikes
#28. Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.
Charles Bukowski
#29. People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.
Deborah Mailman
#30. Coward people are afraid of failure & Failure is afraid of brave people
Mohammed Sekouty
#31. Kind people are brave people. Brave is not something you should wait to feel. Brave is a decision. It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go those who keep weighing you down.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#35. I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed with that you can make a mistake.
Jaime Murray
#36. I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!
Terry Pratchett
#37. Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
Edna Buchanan
#39. I have been fascinated by men and women of courage. People who took brave decisions in the service of great causes especially when more comfortable and far less dangerous alternatives were open to them
Gordon Brown
#40. You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
Felicity Jones
#41. Looks can be deceiving. You can't always tell what's going on inside a person from outside. People put on a brave face when they're trying to get over heartbreak, but that doesn't mean they have.
Alison G. Bailey
#42. What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?
Ysabella Brave
#43. 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
#44. God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
John Ortberg
#45. 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
#46. I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster
#47. Young people are so brave when they go to fight.
Emmanuel Jal
#48. All those religions
they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.
Robert A. Heinlein
#49. I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#51. Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
Nelson Mandela
#52. 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
#53. I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.
Nadine Gordimer
#54. In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
Yu was very brave and won
many battles, but in the end
he failed. Treat people with
sincerity and build a good
organization. Otherwise, it
doesn't matter how famous
or how capable you are.
Li Ka-shing
#55. I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn't an easy thing but it's the right thing to do; be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
Roy Bennett
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.
Paul G. Hoffman
#60. Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
Candice Olson
#61. 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
#62. People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.
Mary Brave Bird
#63. Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Mary Wesley
#64. 'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.
Kaya Scodelario
#65. 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
#66. Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder
#67. I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we ... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.
Freeman Dyson
#68. I find it very endearing when a girl is dorky because it takes a very brave person to act that way in front of people. And in every girl that I've been attracted to, I recognize the dorkiness about her because I think I have some in me. That makes me feel a lot more comfortable with her.
Justin Deeley
#69. A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#70. She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.
Candice Proctor
#71. who are brave in ways that people often can't see on the outside - doing what's needed for their children and themselves. Your strength amazes
Vivian Arend
#72. You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#73. Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#74. A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in it?"
"Do you?"
"There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.
Agatha Christie
#75. I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.
Cindy Sheehan
#76. And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
Aldous Huxley
#77. So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.
Cheryl Strayed
#78. It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#79. 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
#80. The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.
Gary Haugen
#81. I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.
Felicity Huffman
#82. 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
#83. I'll bring you to the Land-of-Almost-Awake, and we'll eat dreams and dance and laugh and cry and be brave and forgive people, and we'll fly with the cloud animals and Granny will be sitting on a bench in Miasmas, smoking and waiting for us.
Fredrik Backman
#84. You can't ever do anything brave if you're wearing the straitjacket of 'What will people think?!
Brene Brown
#85. The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.
Francine Pascal
#86. This is a place where people make and are made. You are what you do. Choose wisely, young Picket. Choose wisely, brave Heather. Understand?
S.D. Smith
#87. Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
Robert Frost
#88. Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don't feel that way, but the payoff is better if we don't pretend when we feel weak or scared so that we allow people to show the kindness that's in them
Daniel Gottlieb
#89. I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
Tom Peters
#90. Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.
Allison Anders
#91. It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.
Veronica Roth
#92. In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.
Martin Almada
#93. I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
Ina May Gaskin
#94. Some people are naturally brave. Others, like me, learn to fake it. I still had no idea if faked bravery and real bravery were the same thing.
J.A. Konrath
#95. be brave enough to love the people around you, even if it looks like sacrifice and feels like loss.
Annie F. Downs
#96. 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
#97. People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
Carl Hiaasen
#98. For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
Sampha
#99. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
George Eads
#100. That some people were born wrong, born all warped and empty inside, that I was born without the parts that made people brave or pure or good. I knew that I was born without a conscience, or maybe a
Sierra Simone
