Top 1200 Brave Person Quotes & Sayings

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

Having the guts to be the person you are is what makes you brave.

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?

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

I'm not a very brave person.

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

'Brave' is very specific and extremely personal. It can't be judged by people on the outside. Just can't. Sometimes brave means letting everyone else think you're a coward. Sometimes brave is letting everyone else down but yourself.

The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified--really genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

I've gotten a lot of people saying. 'That is awesome. You're so brave.' I hate when people say brave. I'm not brave. I'm just living my life. Why is that brave?

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.

It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

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.

feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.

I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

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.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

For me, Caitlyn Jenner is such a huge role model. She's really making a difference in our society by just being brave and sharing her story. People say she's not brave and courageous, but to me, she is so brave and courageous.

We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because that's how I am. The information comes out because I am brave enough to allow it. I'm not brave as a human being in everyday life. I'm brave when I'm acting.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn't pit people against one another. That's what fear does.

Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.