Be Brave: 13 Brave Quotes to Encourage Courage

I’m not brave at all. – Matt Nagle

It’s a brave new world. – Howard Kurtz

I don’t know if I’m brave. – Sacha Baron Cohen

Come on, somebody be brave. – Dave Gould

The brave venture anything. – Euripides

Be brave, be bold, be free. – Angelina Jolie

God himself favors the brave. – Ovid

None but the brave deserve the fair. – John Dryden

The brave find a home in every land. – Ovid

Necessity makes even the timid brave. – Sallust

I don’t know why I’m saying I’m brave. – Diane Sawyer

The brave are parsimonious of threats. – Lajos Kossuth

It is June. I am tired of being brave. – Anne Sexton

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash! – Kenneth Grahame

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman. – Daphne Zuniga

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more. – William Cowper

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. – Georges Duhamel

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. – Alexander Smith

It is going to take a very brave man to love me. – Amanda Holden

If you’re not brave, you’re not going to be free. – Newt Gingrich

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave. – Edmund Morris

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience. – Friedrich Schiller

Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together. – Brad Henry

I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk. – Alain Prost

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid. – George R. R. Martin

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. – Emma Donoghue

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. – Thomas B. Macaulay

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. – Homer

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try. – Dolly Parton

What’s brave, what’s noble, let’s do it after the Roman fashion. – William Shakespeare

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. – Mignon McLaughlin

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us. – Mahatma Gandhi

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. – Mignon McLaughlin

Grieving, if aught inanimate e’er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. – Lord Byron

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. – Jeremy Collier

Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. – Samuel Johnson

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. – Aphra Behn

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay. – Grace Jones

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. – David Levithan

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. – Laurence Sterne

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you– it’s born with us the day that we are born. – Stefan Zweig

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times. – Danica Patrick

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. – Joseph Brant

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. – Christian Nestell Bovee

The ’80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that. – Cyndi Lauper

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles. – Emily Dickinson

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. – Homer

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. – Patrick Henry

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. – Douglas Adams

To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu. – Thomas A. Edison

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn’t walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse. – Joyce Banda

The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It’s complicated. – Mel Brooks

May every soul that touches mine – be it the slightest contact – get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists – to make this life worthwhile. – George Eliot

One woman I interviewed, Amanda Ghost, said, “Let’s not bullshit, there are no women at the top of the music business, and that is a serious problem.” And I said, “Yes!” And I didn’t shy away from saying that. But I still don’t want to be in the firing line. I’m not clever or witty or brave enough to get into the political nitty-gritty with it. – Laura Marling

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment. – Boyle Roche

You don’t get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don’t have much of a choice but to get through ’em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this – It’s not about not being scared – it’s about being scared and doing it anyway – that’s bravery. – Ysabella Brave

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