Be Brave Quotes

• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Faith, Courage, Father

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.111, Om Books International

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• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Happiness, Meaningful

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• Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

  Homer

  Country, Men, Bravery

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.669, Delphi Classics

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• I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Brave, Divergent

  "Divergent and the Gospel (Part II): Vanquishing Weakness, Cultivating Strength" by Jacob Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Falling In Love, Order, People

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• Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.26, Bantam

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• Be brave, be bold, be free.

  Angelina Jolie

  Freedom, Bravery, Brave

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• Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Father, Persistence, Brave

  "A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents" by Ken Blackwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can’t give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that when you go backwards it won’t be too far backwards, so that when you start going forwards again you won’t have too much to catch up

  James Marsden

  Strong, Struggle, Feet

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• We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.

  Veronica Roth

  Kindness, Smart, Struggle

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• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

  George S. Patton

  Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Freedom

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

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Brave Person, Bravery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

  Aesop

  Courage, Distance, Army

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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