Quotes About Braver

#1. The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.

Barry Hannah

#2. The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

F.L. Lucas

#3. The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

Ken Kesey

#4. I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

Mary Oliver

#5. If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on.

Marie Corelli

#6. Surface beauty: blond hair, blue eyes" - she was looking at me - "is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see." - Kendra Hilferty

Alex Flinn

#7. Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.

Henry Van Dyke

#8. Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you. In a culture of conformity, that's braver than it sounds.

Mary Roach

#9. Every time we choose courage we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little braver and a little kinder.

Brene Brown

#10. I'm funnier now because I'm braver and less full of hate, so everything is even more ridiculous than it was before.

Roseanne Barr

#11. And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.

Alistair MacLeod

#12. I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

John Donne

#13. I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#14. I feel braver when I'm around you, you know. Like I could actually fit in here, the same way you do.

Veronica Roth

#15. I wish I were braver, although I try.

Danielle Steel

#16. When cowards hide behind great walls, it is they who are defeated, Khaleesi," Ko Jhogo said. Her other bloodriders concurred. "Blood of my blood," said Rakharo, "when cowards hide and burn the food and fodder, great khals must seek for braver foes. This is known.

George R R Martin

#17. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.

Janelle Monae

#18. By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

William Shakespeare

#19. Emerson once said, "The difference between a hero and a regular man is that a hero was braver five minutes longer.

Jenni Pulos

#20. Lozen is my right hand ... strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.

Victorio

#21. When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#22. Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#23. Thoughts must be harder.
Heart braver.
Courage the greater.
As our strength gets less.

Unknown

#24. A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman?

Cornelia Funke

#25. LEIA [to Han:] Hast thou come here in that ungainly heap? Thou art, perhaps, then braver than I thought.

Ian Doescher

#26. When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, it was an accident, but when she stepped through the looking glass, it was of her own free will, and a braver deed by far.

Salman Rushdie

#27. 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

#28. She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.

John Scalzi

#29. Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Gabrielle Zevin

#30. In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

David Nicholls

#31. Machines are braver than art.

Donald Barthelme

#32. You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:

A.A. Milne

#33. We all wanted to be somebody else. Somebody braver, or more handsome, or smarter. It's what children want. It's what you grow out of, if you're lucky. If you don't, it's a lifetime of agony.

Robert Goolrick

#34. If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.

James Blunt

#35. If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

C.S. Lewis

#36. I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared." -Lily

Cynthia Lord

#37. To love is a brave thing. To be loved, braver still. But allowing yourself to love yourself? That takes the most courage of all.

Debby Ryan

#38. Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

Drake

#39. Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.

Geraldine Brooks

#40. I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.

Yuliya Snigir

#41. Oh, he thinks, if I were a better person. If I were a more generous person. If I were a less self-involved person. If I were a braver person.

Hanya Yanagihara

#42. Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

Khalil Gibran

#43. Be smarter than others imagined.
Be braver than others anticipated.
Be stronger than others calculated.
Be better than others envisioned.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#44. We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

Madeleine L'Engle

#45. Bayla, is this how you'd kill me?" she asked out loud. There are easier ways. You could send another snake. I am sorry I ate the first one." Hearing her own voice made her feel braver. "He was delicious, though

Sarah Beth Durst

#46. I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace

William Shakespeare

#47. Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.

Ronald Reagan

#48. In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

Henry David Thoreau

#49. We know you weren't in the house', he said, starting up again, cranking himself with the handle. They always say 'We', 'We', never 'I' 'I' - as if they feel braver and righter knowing there's a lot of them against only one.

Alan Sillitoe

#50. Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

Colum McCann

#51. Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Brene Brown

#52. You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

From A. A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh

Susana Gordon

#53. If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. ... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But, the most important thing is, even if we're apart ... I'll always be with you.

Emily Murdoch

#54. My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.

Craig Silvey

#55. We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.

Frank Skinner

#56. It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men

Elizabeth Strout

#57. I think you always feel braver in another language.

Anita Brookner

#58. When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you become a man of your word. You become a man of conviction that you're not willing to sell out and you're really a true knight in shining armour.

Jim Caviezel

#59. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Quinn Loftis

#60. She'd vowed to be braver and take more risks, but this seemed out of her league. Because sometimes what you wanted the most was the one thing you were most afraid to get.

Miranda Liasson

#61. One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.

Charlie Huston

#62. Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really be braver than the rest - as if freedom were ultimately a matter of courage, of irreverence and honesty, of rebelliousness.

Daniel Bullen

#63. A hero is no braver than an ordinary woman, but she is brave five minutes longer. (That's me piggybacking on Emerson.)

Camille Perri

#64. The reason the story runs so much with the little girls are the actual heroes in the warfare is because under most circumstances women are braver than men ..

Henry Darger

#65. Each breath, each beat of your heart makes you stronger, braver, better.

Joseph Delaney

#66. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the fluttering banner high above, flashing Potter for President over the crowd. His heart skipped. He felt braver.

J.K. Rowling

#67. Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Norman Mailer

#68. I love that there's no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day is a new chance to listen longer and be braver and love more. We get to try again and again and again.

Anna White

#69. She's braver than she needs to be," he continued. "Maybe, just maybe, she could be the one.

Debra Anastasia

#70. Our city is changing, faster now than ever before, and in order to keep up with it, we'll have to change, too. We'll have to become stronger, braver, better than we are now.

Veronica Roth

#71. Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

Ryan Reynolds

#72. We do have, I'm sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we're going to have to be a lot braver ... in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.

Nigel Farage

#73. One thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

Socrates

#74. To truly be a medicine cat lies in a cat's heart, and all its five senses. You must be braver than warriors, wiser than a clan leader, humbler than the tiniest kit, more willing to learn than an apprentice ...

Erin Hunter

#75. The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

Brene Brown

#76. Yeah, but you're a girl. The braver species.

Gena Showalter

#77. I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#78. Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

Alicia Keys

#79. Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

Leslie Jamison

#80. Annabeth wanted to sob. She wanted someone, anyone to be here for her. She wanted Leo with his fire skills, or Jason with his lightning, or Hazel to collapse the tunnel. Most of all she wanted Percy. She always felt braver when Percy was with her.

Rick Riordan

#81. In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Jean Giraudoux

#82. Josh takes chances; he's braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn't. He does it anyway and he learns. I think we adults have a lot to learn from that. Perhaps to be not so afraid and oversensible about reaching for goals.

Cecelia Ahern

#83. You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.

A.A. Milne

#84. She was sorry she hadn't been braver when she'd had the chance.

Laura Ruby

#85. Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.

Douglas Brinkley

#86. Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

David Benioff

#87. I'm tired of being so closed off. It hasn't made me any stronger or braver. It hasn't imparted any wisdom or comfort. It has just made me lonely.

Lex Martin

#88. While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

James Nesbitt

#89. You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.

A.A. Milne

#90. He had been able to convince himself that he was someone else, someone happier, someone freer and braver. But now Willem is gone, and he is again who he was twenty, thirty, forty years ago.

Hanya Yanagihara

#91. 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

#92. This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they're up to and deal with what idiots called FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.

Caroline Kepnes

#93. Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#94. No regrets doesn't mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe you have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with your life. (P.211)

Brene Brown

#95. Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

Robert A. Heinlein

#96. Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend.
I've never known a braver girl," he says.

Libba Bray

#97. Kylie and I are both pretty brave - much braver than the Kardashians. We have the Jenner in us.

Kendall Jenner

#98. Sometimes it's braver not to fight. Protect them, and save your vengeance for another day.

Cassandra Clare

#99. Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

Monica Cruz

#100. I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

John Buchan