Top 37 Quotes About Trying To Be Brave
#1. 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
#2. I knew they would kill him, or try any way to hurt me or make me upset, so I just was standing there trying my best to look brave!
Ayah
#3. Will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me. -Hetty
Jacqueline Wilson
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Fear flickered in her eyes for a beat but she continued to stare up at me, right into my eyes, trying to be brave. I liked it. I liked it a lot. Yeah, I'm a sick fucker. And the only thing scarier than a sick fucker is a sick fucker with power.
D.D. Prince
#7. I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.
Sandra Bullock
#8. What is this?" I ask, trying to sound brave and flip, and I'm sure, merely coming off as too loud and annoying. "Strip grocery shopping? If it is, I have to tell you I've got on 16 pairs of underwear, so you're going to lose big-time
Rusty Fischer
#9. I'm glad I made business investments, because it gave me the confidence financially to make brave choices. If I hadn't done that, I'd still have been trying to play 19-year-olds in films. I know there are other avenues for me.
Preity Zinta
#10. America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
D.H. Lawrence
#11. What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.
Angelina Jolie
#12. 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
#13. For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a complicated and bureaucratic Veterans Administration benefits system.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#14. I've got the weed, Jane said, and we all laughed the way you laugh when you're trying to be brave in the face of something that scares you.
Emily M. Danforth
#15. To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
Helen Keller
#16. Do you know what it means to be emphatic? I will tell you: It means that when you are being forcibly taken to a dungeon, when you have a large knife at your back, when you are trying to be brave, you are able, still, to think for a moment of the person who is holding the knife.
Kate DiCamillo
#17. By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.
Michael Sheen
#18. She lifted her chin, trying to be brave, fearing he'd still not want her. All she could do was focus on the middle of his chest. He wore another novelty shirt that had "Now they see the sky and they remember what they are.
Melissa Blue
#19. I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking.
Judd Apatow
#20. Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.
Josh Hartnett
#21. 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
#22. She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#23. Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.
Dave Barry
#24. Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.
Nikki Rowe
#25. I'd rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave.
Lee Clow
#26. I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself ... Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.
Roxane Gay
#27. For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
Neil Postman
#28. Why I love him is, I don't know, because he seems very brave and kind and sweet. All that stuff but something else, too. I don't know what something else, but he's different somehow, and what I'm trying to say is it's a good kind of difference, whatever it is.
Dean Koontz
#29. I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one.Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying
Gayle Forman
#30. Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
Alan Watts
#31. In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
Jeannette Walls
#32. Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.
Margaret Mitchell
#33. I said to myself, 'Malala, be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.
Malala Yousafzai
#34. Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.
Margaret Stohl
#35. It is only cowards who reduce the tremendously valuable capacity of wondering to questions. The really brave, the courageous person, leaves it as it is. Rather than changing it into a question, he jumps into the mystery. Rather than trying to control it, he allows the mystery to possess him.
Osho
#36. She'd find a way.
She'd be brave and noble, and she'd find a way.
But she wasn't. Eleanor wasn't any of those things. She was just trying to get through the night.
Rainbow Rowell
#37. Never, never, give in to fear. It is better to have tried and failed than never trying.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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