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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one d...

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There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it...

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Be lucky, Xander, and be brave. You will find that bravery and luck are often bedfellows.

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David GemmellLord of the Silver Bow

So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and...

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Derrick JensenDeep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - gener...

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Diana GabaldonWritten in My Own Heart's Blood

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?""Not ...

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You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against some...

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Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of ...

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The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

She was brave from excess of grief

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of li...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and...

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Bravery means doing something scary.

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our stature...

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Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast—Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the m...

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Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the...

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Emma GoldmanThe Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white...

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

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He was mad and plenty brave.

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Ernest HemingwayTo Have and Have Not

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water d...

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge mi...

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He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. There's plenty I'm afraid of. Just not va...

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting we...

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I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird o...

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Necessity does the work of courage.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest ne...

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Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Br...

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Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave,

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be...

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Fear cuts deeper than swords.

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she ...

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a si...

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If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over somet...

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Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

She was the bravest person I ever knew.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving dea...

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Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me ...

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You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front ...

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of...

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.Aviger shrugged, and di...

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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a t...

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Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid

Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...

He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

SO WHAT" Harry shouted. "Don't you understand? If Snape gets hold of the Stone, Voldemort's coming b...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Courage is found in unlikely places.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

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J. R. R. TolkienJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up m...

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It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

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James ThurberThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one...

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If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it do...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks...

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...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was ove...

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Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

As she turns her head and focuses on me, I lift her palm to my mouth, press a kiss in its center. "Y...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, ...

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I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and n...

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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...

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It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is...

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None but the brave deserves the fair.

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to blee...

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Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to...

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Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, ...

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John MuirThe Mountains of California

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...

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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a d...

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Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot...

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When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depen...

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Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

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Karl MarlantesWhat It is Like to Go to War

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery t...

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Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do...

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If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked ...

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Lance ArmstrongIt's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life