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• Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Stupid, Boys, Scared

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• Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Girl, Strong, Believe

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• I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice, proved to be hardened egotists. And the opposite, too - cowards doing things which needed toughness and unusual courage..... What does it all boil down to in the end? One must judge a man by what he does, and not by what he thinks he would do. Until a man faces the test, he can deceive himself endlessly.

  Jerzy Andrzejewski

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Jerzy Andrzejewski, David J. Welsh (1991). “Ashes and Diamonds”, p.81, Northwestern University Press

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• We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave New World' where the biggest problem there is how to deal with the fact that everyone is so happy...[W]hat we're going to get is a nanny-type of fascism, if we get one at all...[S]imply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

  Jonah

  Mean, Brave New World, Thug

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• Your pursuit of personal greatness challenges others to fear for their own causes, their own battles and pursuits. Your freedom is a reminder of their own imaginary restraints and limitations. Yet, for others, your confidence will be a beacon. People follow conviction, assertive advice and brave leaders, and there's nothing more powerful than a confident man or woman.

  James Victore

  Powerful, Greatness, Men

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• But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.

  Jenny Diski

  Thinking, Should Have, Effort

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• Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

  Aristotle

  Men, Player, Self

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• I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

  George Washington

  Rewards, Merit, Study

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 2) Comprising official letters relating to the French War, and private letters before the American Revolution”, p.124

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• Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Fire, America

  V-Day Ceremony Address at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, delivered 11 November 1988, Washington D.C.

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• Be bold, brave and not afraid to fall on your face and ultimately you will succeed

  Richard Branson

  Fall, Faces, Succeed

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  Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Scared, Right Thing

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is June. I am tired of being brave.

  Anne Sexton

  Tired, June

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence of fear, to go to those places that you think you can’t write - really that’s exactly what you need to write.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• Be brave enough to live creatively.

  Alan Alda

  Be Brave, Enough

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• There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith. But if it makes us brave, the label doesn’t matter... for it’s the thing that frees us, to embrace life itself.

  Jennifer Worth

  Names, Labels, Might

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• I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.

  Jamie McGuire

  Beautiful, Selfish, Intelligent

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!

  Richard Bach

  Princess, Adventure, Thinking

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• Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.

  Richard Branson

  People, Forever, Cautious

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• He's a good, brave and honourable soldier.

  Norman Lamont

  Soldier, Conservative

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• The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

  Aesop

  Life, Hero, Deeds

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Air, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of fiery daring. Something chivalrous in him; brave as a lion; yet with a grace, a truth and affection worthy of Christian knighthood.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Grace, Noble

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• Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Men, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1190, Manonmani Publishers

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• There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Science, Sky

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• Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Rivers, Space

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