90 Inspirational Quotes On Bravery – Inspire Quotes & Sayings
Inspirational Quotes on Bravery
“Be brave, my heart.” —Anonymous
“You’re brave for trying.” —Anonymous
“Fortune favors the brave.” —Anonymous
“Be brave with your life.” —Anonymous
“Bravery comes from daring to fail.” —Anonymous
“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery.” —Morihei Ueshiba
“We become brave by doing brave acts.” —Aristotle
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” —Paulo Coelho
“When you’re brave, you empower others around you to be brave too.” —Anonymous
“In bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.” —Matthew J. Kirby
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” —Seneca
“A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.” —Aristotle
“It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison.” —Anonymous
“The brave do not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.” —Anonymous
“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” —Omar N. Bradley
“Be brave even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” —Anonymous
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” —Thomas Paine
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” —Brene Brown
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye – life will reward you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coelho
“Be brave. Remember that bravery is not the lack of fear but the ability to move forward in spite of fear.” —Anonymous
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” —Alexander Hamilton
“Promise me you’ll always remember that you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” —Christopher Robin
“Bravery is the ability to look fear and hurt in the face and say move aside, you are in the way.” —Melissa Tumino
“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
“Bravery is the audacity to be unhindered by failures, and to walk with freedom, strength, and hope, in the face of the things unknown.” —Morgan Harper Nichols
“Find your passion, love with every ounce of your bones, stand up for things that matter, don’t settle, don’t apologize for who you are. Be brave.” —Anonymous
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.” —Thucydides
“Lead your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery and you shall live a life uncommon.” —Jewel
“Be brave. Without bravery, you will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, your life will remain small – far smaller than you probably wanted your life to be.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
Quotes about Bravery and Courage
“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.” —Ellen Hopkins
“Your most important “want” should be the one you can control.” —Shannon L. Alder
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.” —Michelle Zink
“Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.” —Cher
“It’s okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time.” —Kelly Epperson
“Physical bravery is an animal instinct, moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.” —Wendell Phillips
“When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” —Billy Graham
“Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid.” —Robert Liparulo
“Bravery is measured by how hard you try, not by whether you actually succeed.” —Nancy Straight
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” —Juliette Lewis
“If you can’t be brave, be determined. And you’ll end up in the same place.” —Lisa Scottoline
“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.” —Mark Twain
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.” —Marilyn Manson
“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” —Mark Twain
“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.” —Laurell K. Hamilton
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.” —Miguel De Cervantes
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” —Veronica Roth
“If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.” —Gertrude Stein
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” —Mickey Mantle
“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
“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.” —Matthew Dicks
“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You’ve taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.” —Laurell K. Hamilton
“In case you never get a second chance: don’t be afraid. And what if you do get a second chance? You take it.” —C. JoyBell C.
“Don’t you see? You can’t be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.” —Teri Hall
“Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.” —Roy Bennett
“But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.” —James Clemens
“I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.” —Amy Engel
“Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.” —Christopher Paolini
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.” —Madonna
“Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.” —Pericles
“Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.” —Alaric Hutchinson
Bravery Quotes and Sayings
“Fight till the last gasp.” —William Shakespeare
“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”
“Brave men go forward not expecting to return.” —Bona
“Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.”
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” —Herodotus
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” —Veronica Roth
“I just don’t want to die without a few scars.”
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” —Helen Keller
“Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.” —Samuel Johnson
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anais Nin
“Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.” —John F Kennedy
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” —Franklin P. Jones
“There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.” —John Wainwright
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” —Seth Godin
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” —Thomas Fuller
“Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.” —El Cordobes
“Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.” —Vittorio Alfieri
“Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” —Lana Del Rey
“To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.” —Edward Weeks
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” —Mary Tyler Moore
“Trust the still, small voice that says, ‘this might work and I’ll try it.” —Diane Mariechild
“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” —Michel de Montaigne
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.” —William Shakespeare
“Fear can keep a man out of danger but courage only can support him in it.” —Thomas Fuller
“In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.” —Sallust
“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.” —Philip Sidney
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” —T.S. Eliot
“The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.” —F. E. Smith
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage? it can be delightful.” —George Bernard Shaw
“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.” —Jean Paul
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” —Mark Twain
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” —Bruce Barton
“When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won’t work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.” —RickWarren
“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.” —Franois de la Rochefoucauld
“Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.” —Francis Bacon
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” —Jim Morrison
“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” —C. JoyBell C.
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” —J. K. Rowling
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” —Aristotle
“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.” —L. Frank Baum
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” —Henry Ford
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” —Nelson Mandela
“The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.” —Joanna Baillie