Quotes about Bravery
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
- Jesse Jackson
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
- Mary Harris Jones
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).
- Richard Baxter
Am I willing to walk into the wilds of my interior life without knowing what I'll find?
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Thus the most common one-liner in the Bible is "Do not be afraid"; in fact, someone counted and found that it occurs 365 times!
- Fr. Richard Rohr
This is another day, O Lord... If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.
- Kathleen Norris
Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power
- Oprah Winfrey
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
- George Washington
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
- Joyce Meyer