Brave Quotes

‘I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘He who is brave is free.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.’ – Thomas Paine

‘The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘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

‘Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.’ – Alan Alda

‘I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.’ – Homer

‘This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.’ – Elmer Davis

‘A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.’ – Billy Graham

‘Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.’ – Bear Grylls

‘Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.’ – Queen Latifah

‘We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.’ – Helen Keller

‘Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.’ – Julius Caesar

‘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

‘You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way… to get in the way.’ – John Lewis

‘Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.’ – Suga

‘Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.’ – P. T. Barnum

‘He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.’ – Charles Mackay

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

‘A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.’ – Catherine the Great

‘I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.’ – Riya Sen

‘That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.’ – James A. Garfield

‘Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Dream, struggle, create, prevail. Be daring. Be brave. Be loving. Be compassionate. Be strong. Be brilliant. Be beautiful.’ – Caterina Fake

‘Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘Fortune and love favor the brave.’ – Ovid

‘Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.’ – Charles Dickens

‘The Special Olympics motto, ‘Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,’ really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that’s all any of us can hope for – a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.’ – Hannah Teter

‘It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.’ – Voltaire

‘Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.’ – Indira Gandhi

‘It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.’ – Horace

‘You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.’ – Omar Khayyam

‘Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that’s a goddess.’ – Banks

‘If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.’ – George S. Patton

‘Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.’ – Euripides

‘It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.’ – Aesop

‘The Chinese people are a great people; they are industrious and brave, and they never pause in pursuit of progress.’ – Xi Jinping

‘Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.’ – John Gay

‘Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.’ – Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

‘Be brave and be fearless, and for God’s sake, stand up for yourself.’ – Gretchen Carlson

‘Putting yourself out there is hard, but it’s so worth it. I don’t think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It’s empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘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.’ – Preity Zinta

‘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.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.’ – Ferdowsi

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

‘I’m not funny. What I am is brave.’ – Lucille Ball

‘My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.’ – Alice Munro

‘The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave – it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.’ – Thucydides

‘I’m very proud of ‘Every Girl’s a Super Girl.’ I want all girls to know that no matter what size, color, or shape, whatever they are, that every girl is a super girl! They should be brave, confident, and have fun and enjoy every day!’ – JoJo Siwa

‘I feel that our country’s real heroes are our brave soldiers who leave their families to protect our land.’ – Sonu Sood

‘We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.’ – Rachel Corrie

‘Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?’ – Fannie Lou Hamer

‘Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.’ – Ida B. Wells

‘Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.’ – John Muir

‘Being a law enforcement officer is one of the toughest jobs that there is, but it’s also foundational to a functioning society. We rely on these brave men and women to protect and serve our country every day.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘Fortune favors the brave.’ – Terence

‘Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis’s sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!’ – Deborah Sampson

‘Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.’ – Geoffrey Chaucer

‘As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave… walking the plank… willingly… It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.’ – Morrissey

‘God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.’ – Elizabeth I

‘It’s what makes you happy in life, and to pursue it, I think, is brave and a wonderful thing. I don’t care what people say. I just want to pursue what makes me happy.’ – Marvin Gaye

‘As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.’ – Howard Cosell

‘Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.’ – John B. Hood

‘It’s interesting how we often can’t see the ways in which we are being strong – like, you can’t be aware of what you’re doing that’s tough and brave at the time that you’re doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you’d be scared.’ – Lena Dunham

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

‘The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘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

‘I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I’m brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.’ – Stella Young

‘My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.’ – Ferdinand Marcos

‘We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.’ – Ira Hayes

‘Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Our nation is forever indebted to the brave men and women who laid it all on the line for our country, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedoms.’ – Raphael Warnock

‘In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you’re brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you’re still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘Heroes are never perfect, but they’re brave, they’re authentic, they’re courageous, determined, discreet, and they’ve got grit.’ – Wade Davis

‘We are thankful for the sacrifices of the brave emergency responders who risk their own lives to protect the lives and property of their fellow citizens.’ – Mike Parson

‘Necessity makes even the timid brave.’ – Sallust

‘Be brave and take accountability for your thoughts and beliefs.’ – Jennifer Hyman

‘I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn’t have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.’ – Karl Marlantes

‘I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.’ – Jewel

‘Standing beside each one of our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines is a loving, supportive, and dedicated family whose sacrifice is a true service to our great nation.’ – Elise Stefanik

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

‘I don’t fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don’t think it’s particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.’ – Constance Wu

‘Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.’ – Tom Chatfield

‘There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I’ve always looked at life that way; I’ve always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I’ve gone through.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.’ – Melissa Bean

‘But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.’ – William Godwin

‘The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death’s deserters.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘It’s always brave to be yourself.’ – Liu Yifei

‘I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.’ – Corita Kent

‘The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.’ – Ernst Moritz Arndt

‘Orwell’s ‘1984’ convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘I’m the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?’ – Christopher Marlowe

‘It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it’s be brave or else be killed.’ – Margaret Mitchell

‘An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.’ – Chief Joseph

‘Do you know how big of an insult that is to me – to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?’ – James Meredith

‘I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You’ve got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.’ – Andrew Scott

‘I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn’t mean that at all. It means that you’re afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.’ – Craig Ferguson

‘Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.’ – Susan Orlean

‘An elephant is the king of the jungle for the simple reason a lion is only brave when there is loads of them.’ – Dereck Chisora

‘Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.’ – James Freeman Clarke

‘Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.’ – Ruby Bridges

‘Over time, I have come to believe that ‘brave’ does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean ‘being afraid and doing it anyway.’ Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.’ – John Ortberg

‘Never was a miser a brave soul.’ – George Herbert

‘I think one of the difficult things for me was that I was putting on a brave face for my loved ones; they were putting on a brave face for me. But what got lost in that was the ability to talk about our fear.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘I left Barcelona because I was brave. Neymar arrived and I played less. These things happen in football.’ – Pedro

‘I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.’ – Katherine McNamara

‘Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘To choose love and jump in not knowing, with a lot of unknowns, is a brave act.’ – Mara Brock Akil

‘I think, regardless of gender, women and men need to be brave, take chances with their work, and be open to feedback. But I do think ‘politeness’ is an issue that can hinder your work if you aren’t careful. Kindness is important, but being overly polite – thinking you can’t disagree with someone about your own work – be careful about that.’ – Ellie Kemper

‘We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.’ – Aristotle

‘Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘I say, ‘Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.” – Rose McGowan

‘In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.’ – Maya Angelou

‘History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.’ – Tim Pawlenty

‘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

‘One brave deed makes no hero.’ – John Greenleaf Whittier

‘The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.’ – Charles Horton Cooley

‘You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.’ – Mary Tyler Moore

‘Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs’ true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.’ – Larry Elder

‘Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat’s ear.’ – Earl Derr Biggers

‘You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.’ – Emma Stone

‘The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘It isn’t brave to stand up for gun control in a building surrounded by armed guards. It’s simply elitist.’ – Katie Pavlich

‘There’s a fine line between brave and mad. But whatever I do, I go for it.’ – Viv Albertine

‘This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.’ – Gideon Welles

‘We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘Brave plays the long game on behalf of users first, and also publishers, to win a better Web with fast, safe browsing, anonymous micropayments, and user control over data.’ – Brendan Eich

‘Acting is very sacred. Anyone who stands in front of a crew with the camera recording their emotions is a brave individual.’ – Milo Ventimiglia

‘Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.’ – Emilie Autumn

‘Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘Kylie and I are both pretty brave – much braver than the Kardashians. We have the Jenner in us.’ – Kendall Jenner

‘I remember watching Margaret Cho with my grandmother on TV. She was my hero, not only because she was funny, but because she showed me that it’s okay to be yourself, that it’s okay to be a brash yellow girl and to be a strong and brave woman.’ – Awkwafina

‘Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don’t be intimidated. Read your Bible. That’s really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God’s name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.’ – Margaret Keane

”Brave New World’ dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film ‘Gattaca’ updated ‘Brave New World,’ bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.’ – Ramez Naam

‘The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.’ – Florida Scott-Maxwell

‘True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.’ – Jeremy Collier

‘Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they’re brave enough to show it is another matter.’ – Alex Lawther

‘When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free – if we were, we’d allow people their freedom.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.’ – Mark Pryor

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

‘You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It’s difficult, because there’s a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.’ – Felicity Jones

‘Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps – and if you’re really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.’ – Allison Anders

‘Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.’ – Terry Eagleton

‘If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it’s everybody’s responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That’s what’s going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.’ – Labrinth

‘A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you’re not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it’s never going to be good.’ – Bill Skarsgard

‘I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.’ – Alice Munro

‘Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It’s not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.’ – Imelda Staunton

‘I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There’s this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don’t survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

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

‘Don’t let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.’ – Giuseppe Garibaldi

‘The brave love mercy, and delight to save.’ – John Gay

‘It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.’ – Sallust

‘I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.’ – Leslie Jones

‘I’d like to finish my career as a Brave.’ – Freddie Freeman

‘Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn’t lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.’ – Stanley A. McChrystal

‘Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they’re spontaneous as a tax return.’ – Greg Gutfeld

‘The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.’ – Marion Barry

‘Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.’ – Oscar Hammerstein II

‘While we can’t begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.’ – Ben Jonson

‘We’re lucky to have many brave and honorable officers in Alabama and around the country.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that’s brave. I never get over being thankful for that – for the courage of my readers.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.’ – John Buford

‘When you’re writing, you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.’ – Tom Waits

‘I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.’ – Jane Fonda

‘Going to the doctors – for me that was quite brave, taking that first step. That was a bit scary, saying that I wanted to go on anti-depressants.’ – Limmy

‘This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.’ – Elmer Davis

‘It is our responsibility – our duty – as Members of Congress to prioritize the care of the brave men and women who risked their lives to protect their fellow Americans.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘The brave deserve the lovely – every woman may be won.’ – Charles Godfrey Leland

‘Men, we don’t need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that’s what he does.’ – Virginia Madsen

‘The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Brave browsers block everything: initial signaling/analytics scripts that start the programmatic advertising ‘dirty pipe’, impression-tracking pixels, and ad-click confirmation signals.’ – Brendan Eich

‘I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.’ – Sharon Osbourne

‘To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.’ – Jane Harrison

‘No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days – we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I’d like to be smart, fun, and real. It’s very easy to just put together a pretty dress, some heels, and some jewels. I don’t want to be that girl. It’s all about being brave, taking risks. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.’ – Ella Purnell

‘Brave men are brave from the very first.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.’ – Harvey Penick

‘He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn’t he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.’ – Robert E. Sherwood

‘They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.’ – Hugh Sidey

‘They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.’ – Cindy Crawford

‘It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.’ – Georges Bernanos

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

‘The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.’ – Thomas Carlyle

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

‘In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.’ – Guy Verhofstadt

‘We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.’ – Dick Durbin

‘Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.’ – Mark Dayton

‘Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.’ – Conrad Burns

‘Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.’ – Philip Pullman

‘I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.’ – Philip Green

‘How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country’s wishes blest!’ – William Collins

‘If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you… then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.’ – Tom Wilkinson

‘Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.’ – Lane Evans

‘Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?’ – Arthur Hugh Clough

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

‘You can plan to be brave – it’s even better if you just try to be brave.’ – Clive Barker

‘I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.’ – Stockwell Day

‘I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.’ – David Mallet

‘Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.’ – George Sewell

‘This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.’ – Joe Scarborough

‘When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that’s one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.’ – Robbie Coltrane

‘You have to be very brave in that first writing session.’ – Barry Mann

‘If I were brave enough to say so, I’d like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.’ – Peter Davison

‘I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.’ – Carter G. Woodson

‘I think I’m a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.’ – George Eads

‘Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country’s cause.’ – Matthew Simpson

‘Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.’ – Mary Wesley

‘The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.’ – Townsend Harris

‘Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.’ – Virginia Foxx

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

‘In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn’t mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.’ – John L. Phillips

‘I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.’ – Peter Garrett

‘Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.’ – Jim Gerlach

‘My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.’ – Kenny Loggins

‘The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.’ – Philip Emeagwali

‘Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.’ – Katherine Dunn

‘I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I’m not whining and moaning inside as much.’ – Ione Skye

‘How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?’ – Curt Weldon

‘The innovative spirit was America’s strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.’ – Arthur Erickson

‘I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.’ – Roald Dahl

‘This year’s Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.’ – John Doolittle

‘My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the ’60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.’ – Lisa Bonet

‘I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.’ – Lena Horne

‘I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.’ – Bruce Catton

‘But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.’ – Tim Holden

‘You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.’ – Ella Maillart

‘God bless the Union; – it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.’ – Edward Everett

‘Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.’ – Dan Lipinski

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

‘It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I’m not sure it would ever have found its way into print.’ – Louise Brown

‘For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.’ – Marty Meehan

‘I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.’ – James Wolfe

‘If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.’ – Zebulon Pike

‘Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.’ – Ellen Tauscher

‘However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.’ – Randy Neugebauer

‘Mrs. Parks’ act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.’ – Kendrick Meek

‘A brave mind is always impregnable.’ – Jeremy Collier

‘We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.’ – Jules Verne

‘The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.’ – Du Mu

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

‘I don’t much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘To put up a show is to face life’s injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.’ – Luigi Barzini

‘The result showed that fortune helps the brave.’ – Livy

‘I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.’ – Linda Ellerbee

‘I’m excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for… I’m excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.’ – Tim Hudson

‘It’s a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that’s very difficult, really difficult and very brave.’ – Nicole Kidman

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

‘We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.’ – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

‘I’d like to think that I’m brave. That’s a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I’m the type of person to go rescue someone.’ – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

‘I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don’t like to talk about, or like to ignore.’ – Noomi Rapace

‘Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.’ – Dave Grohl

‘I’m terribly sad about Farrah’s passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.’ – Cheryl Ladd

‘It’s a brave new world. I’m 42 years old. I certainly wasn’t out in high school.’ – Rick Mercer

‘To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.’ – Fatos Nano

‘One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.’ – Brandy Norwood

‘I think it’s so wrong to play the victim. There’s too many brave women out there that just won’t even tolerate it, you know?’ – Elisha Cuthbert

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

‘To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.’ – Dana Hussein

‘A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you’re not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it’s never going to be good.’ – Alexander Skarsgard

‘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

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

‘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?’ – Carl Hiaasen

‘To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.’ – Rupert Everett

‘In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.’ – Heath Ledger

‘I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.’ – Jet Li

‘Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you’re young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.’ – Shirley Henderson

‘Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, ‘oh Lord, they’re not going to want to go here’. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that’s brave.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘It’s almost sickening now that the regulators ‘on the beat’ while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their ‘brave’ stance on short-selling!’ – James Chanos

”Skins’ wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn’t go to drama school.’ – Kaya Scodelario

‘My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.’ – Shimon Peres

‘Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.’ – Carlos Fuentes

‘It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.’ – Helen Hunt

‘In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.’ – Kirk Douglas

‘I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough ‘fun’.’ – Danielle Steel

‘Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That’s brave.’ – Elizabeth Edwards

‘I love escaping into character. It’s a chance to try on people that you wouldn’t be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.’ – Andrea Corr

‘What’s so brave about being bald? I’ve not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer – I’ve just gone out without my hat on!’ – Gail Porter

‘I think I’m inspired mostly by other artists that aren’t actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.’ – Kristin Scott Thomas

‘In my everyday life I’m a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I’m doing something right.’ – Emily Browning

”Brave’ is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.’ – Susan Orlean

‘But I love being scared. I think you’re brave only when you do things that scare you. I’ve always used fear as a motivator. I’m not sure why.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

‘President Obama called for a ‘we’ nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that’s what we need most in our country today.’ – Anna Deavere Smith

‘I’ve become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.’ – David Mitchell

‘I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, ‘You are so brave.” – Laura Benanti

‘By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.’ – Michael Sheen

‘The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.’ – Jane Smiley

‘The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave – just willing to take life on.’ – Mike Mills

‘For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they’re very brave with the terrorists… If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they’d get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.’ – Gary Ackerman

‘There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage… between compromise – even calculated risk – and irresponsibility and capitulation.’ – Ehud Barak

‘New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.’ – Tom Udall

‘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

‘There’s something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.’ – Julie Burchill

‘It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn’t.’ – Alan Sugar

‘Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.’ – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

‘To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows’ & Children’s Benefit Fund.’ – Mark Sanchez

‘I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There’s this thing in our society that you’re not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.’ – Eli Roth

‘I love actresses who are brave and don’t do what’s expected of them or don’t play off how they look or take risks.’ – Kelly Reilly

‘The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple’s or Amazon’s or Microsoft’s. We’re in a brave new world of fierce competition.’ – Howard Stringer

‘I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.’ – Ina May Gaskin

‘In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world – a world without want.’ – Dada Vaswani

‘People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.’ – Deborah Mailman

‘I don’t know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.’ – Richard Armitage

‘Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.’ – David Morrissey

‘I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.’ – Cai Guo-Qiang

‘I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I’m just not comfortable doing anymore.’ – Joe Mantello

‘I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.’ – Daniel Handler

‘It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.’ – Lady Gregory

‘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

‘I’m not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro

‘I’m not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.’ – Roz Savage

‘Young people are so brave when they go to fight.’ – Emmanuel Jal

‘If I’m brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.’ – Jack Reynor

‘Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus – the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe’s sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.’ – Martin Filler

‘I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.’ – Carly Craig

‘The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who’s brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.’ – Felicia Day

‘I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical ‘get up and go’ attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.’ – Felicia Day

‘I like to think I’m quite brave. I stand up for myself.’ – Dakota Blue Richards

‘My 94-year-old grandmother has always been so inspiring to me. She is kind, smart, brave, and independent. After graduating number one in her medical school class at a time when it was extremely rare for women to attend medical school, she worked with the World Health Organization in North Africa to eradicate tuberculosis.’ – Kelsey Chow

‘N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.’ – Nas

‘Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn’t suit my taste, so I thought, ‘OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.’ And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.’ – Josh Hartnett

‘I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother’s generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.’ – Teresa Heinz

‘We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn’t want anything to do with it.’ – John Oliver

”Heroine’ is about a declining and imbalanced superstar – a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She’s a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she’s very fragile.’ – Kareena Kapoor Khan

‘For me, when I’m writing something really personal, I don’t feel good about it. It’s weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.’ – Sampha

‘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.’ – Tom Peters

‘Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about being a bit theatrical – having fun rather than being too safe. You have to be brave. Fashion is fun.’ – Eva Green

‘I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What’s done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I’m not brave enough. It’s a difficult thing to do – looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.’ – Eva Green

‘You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.’ – Mel Brooks

‘I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.’ – Ferdinand Marcos

‘I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘I wish I could write ‘Taxi Driver,’ or ‘Blue Velvet,’ something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don’t know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.’ – Stephen Merchant

‘I read the ‘Harry Potter’ books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don’t think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He’s always brave, and he’s perfect in a lot of ways.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.’ – Biz Stone

‘I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.’ – Natalia Kills

‘I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.’ – Adam McKay

‘Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it’s one of the least ‘brave’ or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It’s one thing to call it just, but to pretend it’s ‘brave’ is Orwellian in the extreme.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘Preaching is the most original thing I’ve ever done. There’s nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.’ – George Foreman

‘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.’ – Jenny Offill

‘No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain’s heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘The brave men and women who have served – and those who continue to serve – our armed forces have selflessly sacrificed for our nation, and we owe it to them to provide the best services and protections available when they’re overseas and after they return home.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a complicated and bureaucratic Veterans Administration benefits system.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial – you have to dare to create your own brand.’ – Delphine Arnault

‘There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.’ – Jane Leavy

‘History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.’ – Simon Schama

‘I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.’ – Rebecca Pidgeon

‘Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.’ – Preity Zinta

‘I’m glad I made business investments, because it gave me the confidence financially to make brave choices. If I hadn’t done that, I’d still have been trying to play 19-year-olds in films. I know there are other avenues for me.’ – Preity Zinta

‘It’s very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.’ – Eleanor Catton

‘We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.’ – John F. Tierney

‘My first and most loved real novel was ‘Little Women.’ I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.’ – Rhea Perlman

‘I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World.” – Lois Lowry

‘There’s not too many things I’m afraid of, but I’m not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.’ – David Zayas

‘Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.’ – Logan Marshall-Green

‘I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that’s very brave – someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what’s happened.’ – George Eads

‘Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I’ve always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.’ – Casey Wilson

‘I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: ‘Anthem,’ by Ayn Rand; ‘1984,’ by George Orwell; or ‘Brave New World,’ by Aldous Huxley.’ – Sara Shepard

‘I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn’t always match what you get out.’ – Joaquin Castro

‘Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and brave, peace-loving and hard-working people.’ – Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

‘I’ve been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it’s a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they’re some of my closest friends.’ – Caroline Shaw

‘Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people’s homes – then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.’ – Candice Olson

‘I’m a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there’s only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.’ – Joe Dempsie

‘I consider myself straight, but if I met a guy tomorrow and fell in love with him, would I be brave enough to accept that without having to change the way I look at myself?’ – Harry Lloyd

‘I think Michael Moore is an amazing man – an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, ‘Don’t associate with Cindy Sheehan.’ People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.’ – Cindy Sheehan

‘I think I’m brave because I’ve made decisions based – I hope not entirely selfishly – on what I think is right for me to do next.’ – Maeve Binchy

‘Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.’ – David Blunkett

‘I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations… have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.’ – Tyne Daly

‘I just love actors, and I’ve always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it’s easy, and it ain’t. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there’s a lot of truth in what they’re showing.’ – Paul Haggis

‘As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren’t brave, we aren’t artists.’ – Paul Haggis

‘It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It’s easier to try the traditional route and then, if it fails, go to the alternatives, but often it can be too late.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.’ – Sebastian Coe

‘It is important for all of us to show our support for the brave men and women in the United States military.’ – Ty Warner

‘The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.’ – Jim Cooper

‘In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It’s brave of him.’ – Marcia Gay Harden

‘I knew nothing about the industry, I didn’t go to fashion school, but I was brave enough to do things in a different way.’ – Peter Nygard

‘When I see films like ‘Lagaan’ and ‘Rang De Basanti,’ I feel, ‘Why can’t I do work like this?’ Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.’ – Rohit Shetty

‘I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that’s the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘I’m not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.’ – Christopher Moore

‘Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.’ – G-Eazy

‘It’s easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you’re – your technique is so much more exposed because there’s not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.’ – Cary Fukunaga

‘I am not a brave man… I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.’ – Andy Weir

‘I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don’t know where I’d be.’ – Troye Sivan

‘I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it’s a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.’ – Russell Crowe

‘Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.’ – Martin O’Malley

”Holy Smoke’ is very brave because I don’t think it’s easy to watch.’ – Kate Winslet

‘Life’s the adventure. You don’t have to drop your bundle and go bush. It’s about being brave within the context that you’re in.’ – Robyn Davidson

‘You have to be brave when you’ve got a kid.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson

‘I’m not a very brave person.’ – Claire Denis

‘Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening – these are all brave women. They’ve all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier.’ – Lesli Linka Glatter

‘I suppose ‘Worried About the Boy’ was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn’t get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.’ – Douglas Booth

‘Every sport has its dangers. I’ve been pretty lucky, knock on wood. But I’ve had really confident, brave and smart horses growing up, which I think is important when you’re young. You are working with massive animals over big fences, and especially at this top level, there is really no room for error.’ – Jessica Springsteen

‘I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl’s very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can’t they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?’ – Patrick Ness

‘I would ask, ‘Have you read ‘1984’? Have you read ‘Brave New World’? If so, I’m sorry, but you read science fiction.” – Carrie Vaughn

‘It took me 14 years to write ‘Crazy Brave’ because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don’t really want to write about myself. But it’s about writing about memory.’ – Joy Harjo

‘Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.’ – David Hewson

‘When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then – and not until then – will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man – the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

”Betchya Got A Cure’ is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It’s about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted.’ – Sophie B. Hawkins

‘I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It’s a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Sweet Valley’ and books like that.’ – K. A. Applegate

‘What I love about Sade other than her smooth and sultry voice is her willingness to be vulnerable. As a powerful, strong and beautiful woman of color, she showed her delicate, passionate side in a world where most of us are putting on a brave face. I love how effortless her style was and how consistent that red lip was!’ – Wynter Gordon

‘As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it’s not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.’ – V. E. Schwab

‘If I’m an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that’s the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.’ – Bill Maris

‘Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it’s going to be very, very hard.’ – Renee James

‘I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.’ – Daisy Ridley

‘I’ve had something sort of like angel cards where you pull out an angel card that turns out, like, grandmother was watching over me. And I believe, in some way, I haven’t been brave enough to engage with tarot cards mostly because they always end on a bad note. I’m sure if I understood tarot cards more I wouldn’t be as fearful.’ – Sarah Snook

‘I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.’ – Taya Kyle

‘It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange or silly. If I can impart that same wisdom to other folks – no matter what age – it would be an honor.’ – Alethea Kontis

‘In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘I love watching YouTube makeup tutorials of girls who are so brave and show others how to blend in foundation on blemish-prone skin. I’ve considered creating my own YouTube tutorial for other girls just to show that everyone has these problems.’ – Keke Palmer

‘Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he’s kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they’ve been raised away from the poisons of society.’ – Isaac Hempstead Wright

‘If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.’ – Brian Sutton-Smith

‘Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.’ – Margaret Stohl

‘Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.’ – David Ignatius

‘Editors have grown timid… a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.’ – Muriel Rukeyser

‘The American Dream has been defended, in every generation, by the brave men and women willing to fight and die for America. They are our greatest national treasure. They deserve a serious Commander-in-Chief.’ – Leon Panetta

‘You need a president whom you can trust, someone who will not steal your money, a president who is sincere, brave and just.’ – Grace Poe

‘I’d love to say that I’m this brave person doing this big adventure and that it’s easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, ‘What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?” – Megan Shull

‘I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that’s the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they’re doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it’s going to work out okay.’ – Vincent D’Onofrio

‘Caceres was a vocal and brave indigenous leader, an opponent of the 2009 Honduran coup that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, made possible.’ – Greg Grandin

‘What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.’ – Loretta Lynch

‘We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that’s wrong.’ – James Comey

‘On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.’ – Bill Flores

‘As Americans, we should all convey our thanks to the brave men and women who have selflessly and courageously served our nation.’ – Marcia Fudge

‘To help advance democracy, we need to allow for the reunification of Cuban families and the direct sending of remittances to the island’s brave dissidents.’ – Joe Garcia

‘I don’t even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘I get real brave when I text people. When I text people, I am so brave because it’s words, but you can’t say stuff.’ – Leslie Jones

‘You’ve got to be brave.’ – Katherine Kelly

‘I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits. I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.’ – Ron White

‘What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave – in the real world, everyone and anyone is around. So if people get to see themselves on the stage, they’ll want to come.’ – Cynthia Erivo

‘The women I see are very brave women, very strong women, women that are facing a lot of challenges and yet are up to the challenges and are making a very big effort. So I don’t see why one of them cannot become a president – one day.’ – Rula Ghani

‘If someone offered me a free trip to the International Space Station, I would decline. I like Earth. I like the internet. I like Diet Coke. I have cats. I write about brave people – I’m not one of them.’ – Andy Weir

‘Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, and brave.’ – Adrienne Mayor

‘Sometimes this going out in obedience to God’s command is more dramatic than at other times… sometimes more spectacular… sometimes more brave… but always it is a venture into the unknown.’ – Peter Marshall

‘For me, it’s actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It’s so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I’m not really there yet.’ – Zara Larsson

‘I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.’ – Aurora

‘The sacrifice of the brave men and women of the military and their families allows us to be safe, and we are grateful.’ – Matt Mead

‘Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she’s active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.’ – Katha Pollitt

‘I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it’s the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that’s where you feel danger.’ – Derek Cianfrance

‘Moana is such an amazing character. She’s brave; she is so empowered. She knows what she wants, and she’s not afraid to get it, and I think that’s something that I can relate to as well. I just love watching how she goes along in this wonderful movie and grows as a person and helps her culture along the way.’ – Auli’i Cravalho

‘The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is ‘Everyone Brave is Forgiven’ by Chris Cleave. It’s the sort of book to read if you’ve fallen out of love with reading – it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.’ – Talulah Riley

‘My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don’t know why I equate being brave with fighting.’ – Kenneth Lonergan

‘Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn’t love my father; he was such a quiet man, and she was not. She was the most vivid person I have ever known. She was accomplished and brave and fearless. She used to say to me, ‘I want you to be able to talk to anyone about anything.” – Miriam Margolyes

‘I’m not brave. Far from it.’ – Mike Gallagher

‘My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.’ – Zachary Taylor

‘I was raised in the ’70s, and I’ve worked with people I love, and I’ve been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.’ – Laura Dern

‘I have nothing to hide. So when I spoke about my lip job, a lot of people called me brave for coming out.’ – Anushka Sharma

‘I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.’ – Ferdinand Marcos

‘Oh, I’m full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I’m brave, which is different. Brave means you’re able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable.’ – Claire Danes

‘My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.’ – Damian Lewis

‘There was the ‘Cosby Show’ in America in the 1980s, which was a doctor in a beautiful Brownstone middle-class house. We just haven’t created a role like that in the U.K.; it’s always gangs and crime. We need to be brave.’ – David Harewood

‘Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious – its modest title is ‘The Future’ – Al Gore’s new book embodies both the virtues and the flaws of its author. But those hardy souls who slog past the weaknesses will be rewarded by a book that is brave, original and often fun.’ – Chrystia Freeland

‘The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral – whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I’m in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I’m lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.’ – Maggie Rowe

‘Sometimes it’s easy to do brave things in front of a thousand people, but it’s hard to do them in front of a handful. It feels so much more exposing.’ – Essie Davis

‘While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.’ – Marc Veasey

‘I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease – I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.’ – Ariel Levy

‘Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.’ – Phil Lord

‘If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they’re doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these ‘blockbuster films,’ you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you’ve got to be open and brave.’ – Omari Hardwick

”Let Me Love You’ is about being brave enough to let a person get close enough to you to teach you how to love yourself, to teach you the importance of loving yourself.’ – Ne-Yo

‘To be here in America so soon after the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage and at the birth of the Caitlyn phenomena feels so timely. It feels perfect for my universe to collide with Caitlyn’s, but on a purely personal level, I just think she is utterly fabulous and brave.’ – Boy George

‘I always look for the character that gets into your guts and tells you, ‘You have to play this.’ You have to be brave enough to let everything else go and let the character guide you. When I read a script, I look for that kind of pull.’ – Colin Morgan

‘I’m not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.’ – Ari Graynor

‘The main idea with Brave is that you don’t have to think about Bitcoin; you just have this frictionless payment system.’ – Brendan Eich

‘Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a people divided by a common malady.’ – Tom Tancredo

‘They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe’s solution to Catalans to turn its back?’ – Carles Puigdemont

‘I’m not brave, I’m not fantastic. I’m like any other woman. I’m unhappy. I’m difficult. I’m sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don’t want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it.’ – Sonia Rykiel

‘One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was ‘brave.’ To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.’ – Mark Foster

‘I like to think in an emergency situation, I’d act in a really brave way. But the truth is if I ever did get in a situation that looked remotely dangerous, I’d fall on my knees and start crying.’ – Daniel Rigby

‘I think there are many ways to be brave and that being brave and vulnerable in terms of a romantic situation is one of the hardest things to do in real life.’ – Kelly Marie Tran

‘If you have a dream, be brave enough to go and get it!’ – Karishma Tanna

‘I am proud to be the granddaughter and daughter of immigrants who were brave enough to leave their homes and come to a whole new world with a different language and culture and immerse themselves fearlessly to start a better life for themselves and their families.’ – Lauren Jauregui

‘I’ve always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ ‘Brave New World,’ and obviously Orwell’s ‘1984.” – Alexander Skarsgard

‘I think, in the past, being brave – being powerful, being strong – were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think… no, I don’t think – I know that now we’re realizing they can be feminine, too.’ – Jessica Chastain

‘What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the… land of the free and the home of the brave.’ – Fannie Lou Hamer

‘Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women’s sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It’s going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘No military contractors should have a ‘shoot first’ culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘A catwalk show is just how it’s done; it’s just what you do – it’s central to the presentation of a collection. It will be a very brave designer who gives up the catwalk entirely in favour of a digital show.’ – Matthew Williamson

‘The freedoms and prosperity we enjoy in America are thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces.’ – Bill Foster

‘I remember doing my first school play. We were doing ‘Oliver Twist,’ and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.’ – Kaya Scodelario

‘No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We’re all kind and brave, soft and hard, sciency and artsy, interested in being looked at and in admiring others’ physical form. Everything.’ – Naomi Alderman

‘I always say what I think… I’m not brave – I just have no filter.’ – Bianca Balti

‘The people standing up most strongly for our democracies should be celebrated, not prosecuted – be it those countless human rights defenders who defend all our rights or the brave whistle-blowers who expose tax dodging.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘I love ‘Girls’ on HBO because it’s brave and cool.’ – Ryan Murphy

‘We have brave hearts and won’t retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.’ – Cyril Ramaphosa

‘Seeing other people perform inspires me. I couldn’t be a good performer if just relied on my own talents. Seeing what other brave choices other actors are making gives me the strength to be bold in auditions and to approach roles in different kind of ways.’ – Andrew Keenan-Bolger

‘The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.’ – Clint Smith

‘Sinbad is a great character for any actor to be able to play: impulsive, adventurous, passionate, loyal, and brave – a true hero.’ – Elliot Knight

‘People are always asking me – because of my family – if I ever feel pressure or feel like I have something to live up to. And having that in the back of my head, I’ve just learned to be really brave even in the face of feeling ill-prepared.’ – Zoe Kazan

‘Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately, it has never been guaranteed for everyone. But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, by the early 2000s we were at a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so.’ – Jason Kander

‘Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave.’ – Edward Enninful

”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.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘Some people worry about our federal deficit, but I, I worry about our bravery deficit. Our economy, our society – we’re just losing out because we’re not raising our girls to be brave. The bravery deficit is why women are underrepresented in STEM, in C-suites, in boardrooms, in Congress, and pretty much everywhere you look.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘For the American economy, for any economy to grow, to truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half our population. We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we’ve got to do it now. We cannot wait for them to learn how to be brave like I did when I was 33 years old.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, this time for public advocate of New York City.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.’ – Laurie Metcalf

‘Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.’ – Mary Pilon

‘In TV, you look to make characters consistent, but in real life, we’re not consistent. Sometimes we’re brave, and sometimes we’re not. Sometimes we’re very aggressive, and sometimes we back right down.’ – Nell Scovell

‘We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.’ – Ma Yansong

‘I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.’ – Jennifer Nettles

‘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?’ – Oksana Masters

‘Bengaluru’s traffic does not allow scope for cycling regularly, but I brave the roads occasionally and take the cycle out to work.’ – Naveen Tewari

‘What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.’ – Alice Ripley

‘One thing I’ve learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I’ve been lucky enough to grow up around is that you’ve got to be brave.’ – Maya Hawke

‘I need to put myself out in the world and be brave and be uncomfortable. When I do, it means I can enjoy life so much more.’ – Annabelle Wallis

‘If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.’ – Phoebe Waller-Bridge

‘When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don’t wear makeup, you hear things like, ‘Oh wow, you look tired,’ or, ‘You’re so brave for not wearing makeup!” – Colbie Caillat

‘Moving to New York is a big, brave thing to do.’ – Ella Purnell

‘I used to think the word ‘feminist’ reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn’t need to say it.’ – Paulina Porizkova

‘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.’ – Jazz Jennings

‘Standing beside each brave servicemember is a spouse with their own unique professional dreams and career goals that shouldn’t be stifled by the constant transitions that our military families are subjected to.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘We ask our brave men and women in uniform to risk everything to protect us.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘The North Country of New York is a region steeped in rich military tradition. Our corner of this country stands out for the remarkable tradition of brave men and women putting themselves in harm’s way for our nation.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘Luck favors the brave.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘If you’re brave enough to search ‘Franchesca Ramsey’ on YouTube, you’ll find a sea of ranting white dudes pinning the ‘angry black woman’ stereotype onto my smiling face.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘Just as you’re allowed to be angry about injustice, it’s natural to express feelings of sadness or fear, especially if you’re exhausted by the prospect of trying to keep a brave face.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna St. Vincent Millay’s work. I was embarrassed not to have read her, and I think that put me off from reading her for a long time. So many of her poems are just impeccable.’ – Tracy K. Smith

‘I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning.’ – Emma Healey

‘When Facebook launched, it dove headfirst into a brave new world. No one knew that the cost of connecting people all over the world for ad revenue was eventually going to be Cambridge Analytica.’ – Sarah Jeong

‘Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station. When you’re confronted by the police, very few – either the foolish or the very brave – will refuse consent when confronted by the police.’ – Michelle Alexander

‘Americans will forever be proud of the brave men and women of our armed forces who served in World War II, and we will never forget those who paid the last full measure of devotion for our country. Their service protected our freedom and changed the course of history around the world.’ – Ben Rhodes

‘I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘What’s interesting about ‘The Brave and Bold #85′ is it’s a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow.’ – Neal Adams

‘I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist – that you have to be a brave and freedom-loving person.’ – Haris Pasovic

‘When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’.’ – Max Richter

‘Holding on to things from the past is the same as clinging to an image of yourself in the past. If you’re the least bit interested in changing anything about yourself, I suggest you be brave and start letting things go.’ – Fumio Sasaki

‘I think maybe the most important thing that we have to say is that people don’t often talk about network executives being brave. You don’t talk about them as having integrity and a higher purpose, because it’s a job… except for Bob Greenblatt. He is a theatre person. He loves and understands it.’ – Craig Zadan

‘It’s not the actor’s job to be interesting; that’s the script’s job. It’s our job to be truthful and brave.’ – Mia Goth

‘I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don’t think comedy needs to be ‘brave’ or ‘important.” – Chris Gethard

‘Every once in a while, brave companies step out and act in ways that move customers and shareholders to also act in good faith.’ – Richard Grenell

‘I’m brave and fearless when I’m performing, but in real life, I’m actually quite prudish.’ – Roisin Murphy

‘The only guy that was ever affected by climactic conditions in his acting was Kirk Douglas. He did a superb job in ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ because we were shooting that picture up at about 12,000 feet, and the rarefied atmosphere sapped him of any energy or strength that he had. That was his best performance.’ – Walter Matthau

‘I have the skills to box and not get into a war. I’ve been getting punishment I shouldn’t be taking because, sometimes, I’m too brave for my own good. When I’ve got good footwork and movement, I should use them.’ – Amir Khan

‘I’ve been really frugal with money since way back, so I can’t buy something if it’s too expensive. I’m not that brave.’ – Akira Toriyama

‘There’s a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, ‘You say what I think but I’m not brave enough to say,’ and that’s not particularly true.’ – Jim Jefferies

‘I am glad I have a partner like Tahira who is very brave, strong, who is an inspiration.’ – Ayushmann Khurrana

‘Being a minority voice is still brave – even if the minority voice is from the right wing.’ – Katie Hopkins

‘My life is a brave one. I didn’t put any restrictions.’ – Arunachalam Muruganantham

‘I’d rather not be called ‘brave.” – Chinmayi

‘For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.’ – Anna Soubry

‘Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you’re pregnant.’ – Sue Perkins

‘For many decades – and this was reinforced by the broadcast networks’ standards-and-practices department – bad guys on TV had to get their comeuppance, and good guys had to be brave and true and unconflicted. Those were the laws of the business.’ – Vince Gilligan

‘You have to be brave and ask the questions on the tip of your tongue.’ – Stacey Dooley

‘I love Orla Guerin – she’s my queen… when I watch her on the news, I just can’t believe how brave she is.’ – Stacey Dooley

‘I wasn’t brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.’ – Emily Osment

‘Decisions are for the brave, and I am the bravest, deciding to leave Barcelona and Juventus.’ – Dani Alves

‘Everyone has something that scares them. Everyone must make a choice at some point whether to be brave. Everyone has a story.’ – Elizabeth Vargas

‘I always look for projects that are risky and ones that want to do something unique. If audiences don’t like it, you feel good knowing that you were brave enough to do something original. If they do like it, you feel like everyone is rewarded, because we all got to see something new.’ – Cameron Britton

‘I can’t be selectively brave. I can’t say something in the heat of the moment and then get scared when people raise their voice against my thoughts.’ – Sobhita Dhulipala

‘The last person who was brave enough to cast me was Rahul Bose in ‘Everybody Says I’m Fine.’ He gave me no choice. He is my dearest friend. I confided in him about how disillusioned I was by the business of cinema and stardom. He offered me a role.’ – Pooja Bhatt

‘Many kids going through tough times watch WWE on TV and tell me that they feel inspired to be strong and brave because of us. That makes me feel the need to be an even better person because I feel like I’m a role model to them, and that’s a responsibility I don’t take lightly.’ – Natalya Neidhart

‘If it wasn’t for so many brave people standing up, speaking out, and fighting for equal rights, we might not have all of the luxuries of freedom that we have today. So many unsung people fought for us to be able to live together in harmony no matter how different we are from one another.’ – Natalya Neidhart

‘We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted is a ‘power grab.’ Americans understand that these are the values our brave men and women in uniform and our veterans risk their lives to defend.’ – Stacey Abrams

‘Any director who’s willing to be brave not only in terms of subject matter but also in terms of being emotional and moving you is what inspires me.’ – Zal Batmanglij

‘We ask our men and our women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this great country so that we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave.’ – Ainsley Earhardt

‘I think of those giants who made the Indian National Congress. Seldom has the world seen a nobler galaxy of women and men, so selfless in their devotion to the cause of freedom, so exalted in thought, so brave in action, so pure in spirit.’ – Rajiv Gandhi

‘I think we have seen evidence that being brave enough to go abroad can lead to a proper opportunity.’ – Gareth Southgate

‘Having the guts to be the person you are is what makes you brave.’ – Ronan Keating

‘I see myself as somebody who supports the bravest of the brave – the warfighter.’ – Sebastian Gorka

‘In the past, I tried to put on a brave face and smile after a defeat, but then it would backfire in training, and I’d get frustrated. Now I just embrace it, let it out, and then, two days later, I’m back in training and ready for the next game.’ – Millie Bright

‘To be a manager, you’ve got to gamble. Be brave, be bold, but be humble in everything that you do, and from the kit man to the physio to your best player to your youngest player, make sure you treat everybody the same.’ – Phil Neville

‘The fear of letting people down – that’s the drive. Sir Alex, I think, if he was brave enough to say it, he would say the same, but in his eyes, the motivating factor is that you want to be the best.’ – Peter Schmeichel

‘I always thought I could be brave and charge at things and smash ’em and walk away, but it takes courage to sit and look at things and say, ‘This is what I am. How do I fix it? How do I live with it?” – Jimmy Barnes

‘Dad had a huge influence on me. I really look up to him for his brave acts. He was an outspoken man. For him, if it was the right thing, he would stand up for the smallest guy around him.’ – Rajkumar Hirani

‘I cannot support keeping our brave service men and women away from their families without a clear need or purpose that would actively benefit the people of Wisconsin or our nation.’ – Tony Evers

‘You need wickets to be brave. When you get wickets, you can try anything. But when you don’t, you always hesitate to try a few things because it is not always about giving runs and getting wickets.’ – Bhuvneshwar Kumar

‘When I was younger, I never thought I’d be brave enough to go and play abroad.’ – Toni Duggan

‘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.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.’ – Eric Reid

‘You need to be brave to able to stand up to tough atmospheres and against top players.’ – John McGinn

‘Opening the batting in Test cricket, facing up to fast bowlers looking to do their worst with a new, hard ball is incredibly tough. You have to be brave, single-minded and prepared to work very, very hard.’ – Jonathan Agnew

‘There are individuals out there who use the body protection as a form of staying power to go on as long as possible. That’s the worst way anybody can be thinking, that you should cover yourself in a suit of armour, to make yourself brave, or to enable you to hook – when you never hooked in your life – just because you’ve got a helmet on.’ – Viv Richards

‘The words used to describe the heroes of D-Day are not the current lexicon we tend to use for success. Humble, selfless, brave. Those are not words we attach in 2019 to superstars.’ – Martha MacCallum

‘One hopes that good, sensible and brave people will continue to go into public life at all levels.’ – Nicholas Soames

‘To sit in my concert and be uncomfortable is brave. Because you could always leave, you know?’ – Rhiannon Giddens

‘I respect Virgin Atlantic’s brave and challenging attitude and the way it goes against the grain, so I jumped at the chance to be part of the first ever Gallery in the Air.’ – Ben Eine

‘My first passion was to create for young girls the idea that you have to be brave and courageous, it’s not easy taking big steps and saying, ‘I’m going to be a professional dancer’.’ – Oti Mabuse

‘You can see players do things in training that aren’t a problem but they can’t in a game situation. You have to work on it, relax and be brave.’ – Freddie Ljungberg

‘I’m not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don’t really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It’s being brave and courageous and true to yourself.’ – Tones and I

‘It takes one brave woman to implement change and for other women to be able to follow that.’ – Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

‘We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.’ – Jess Phillips

‘The way I see things is that, I think that transgender people are super brave. If you’re a female to male, male to female, if you’re that brave to take control of your own body and make it however you want it to be, more power to you.’ – Carmen Carrera

‘For me fortunately, my mother was my backbone. She was an independent and fierce woman, and she made sure I am too. She wanted me to be a brave person.’ – Asha Parekh

‘You have to be completely brave and sincere about what you’re doing to just not ever compromise and change it to what you think someone else might want.’ – Justin Chancellor

‘I was thinking of the parallel between the ocean, the life and the music. The ocean is everything. It’s calm, but brave – it’s life.’ – Karol G

‘I think there is a collective unconsciousness, or some sort of consciousness, that you can tap into if you’re open and brave enough to let everything go and be part of that.’ – Danny Carey

‘I am exceptionally fond of all the brave servicemen and women who have worked, and continue to work, to keep us safe and secure, and protect our values.’ – Vera Lynn

‘John’s legacy? His bravery. When he had the power, he used it. He really wanted peace on Earth, and John’s lyrics, well, that’s the brave poetry of the ’60s. If he had stayed with us, he could have done so much more.’ – Astrid Kirchherr

‘I’m not the spring chicken everyone wants. I’ve got a debilitating illness. The brave face is ‘I’m busy with work’ but I’ve sort of chucked myself on the scrapheap. That’s why I’m single. I’ve resigned myself to being a difficult woman.’ – Jack Monroe

‘With ‘SMTV’ it was a very brave decision by ITV to commission it for a year. It was so awful to start with and the ratings were so low to start with we might never have made it past the first six months.’ – Ant McPartlin

‘I used to be brave. In the past, I’ve opened a restaurant, had a record label, had my daughter and it was go, go, go with all of these.’ – Nadine Coyle

‘Our brave servicemen and women sacrifice so much for us all – whether they’re spending months away from their families and friends or putting their lives on the line for our country.’ – Grant Shapps

‘We did it! Britain is no longer a member of the European Union. By ‘we’ I mean the 17.4 million Britons who voted Leave, Nigel Farage who fought for the cause for 25 years, Brexit Party MEPs, Tory Party members who were brave enough to desert their party in droves at the Euro-elections and, of course, the Daily Express.’ – Ann Widdecombe

‘I don’t get people asking me to fight face-to-face but there’s a lot of brave folk on the Internet.’ – Hafthor Bjornsson

‘If I want to be brave enough to stand up and make my opinions count, I will have to take the punches and roll with it.’ – Nicole Seah

‘I think I’m a pretty brave girl, but I wouldn’t say I’m fearless.’ – Liza Soberano

‘I want to complement Chaeyoung for her spirit and perseverance. She is never scared of new or unfamiliar things; instead she accepts the challenge. It is really awesome to see this side of her, and I want to learn how to be more brave like her.’ – Nayeon

‘When somebody openly talks about having depression, it’s a very brave thing to do.’ – Laila Rouass

‘As citizens, I’m asking you not to leave any child behind. I’m asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.’ – Mellody Hobson

‘I like brave people.’ – Diego Simeone

‘We enjoy a growing awareness and literacy around the symptoms of and remedies for mental illness. Thanks to brave public figures and persistent campaigners, much of the ignorance and stigma has been reduced.’ – Luciana Berger

‘The brave men and women stepping up to tell their #MeToo stories have inspired a movement that pushes us to become better versions of ourselves.’ – Andy Beshear

‘I was pretty much nonexistent on the Internet before NASA, and that was really because I’ve been inspired by amazing sacrifices of people who did amazing things – jumping on grenades or sacrificing their lives or doing the most crazy, brave things without hesitation and never, ever seeking recognition for it. That was always very powerful for me.’ – Jonny Kim

‘Yeah definitely, I have to be brave. There are some bad tackles that we don’t like. But it’s not my job to look at that, it’s the referee’s job, he has to see what is going on. All I try to do is keep going.’ – Adama Traore

‘I came to Dortmund from a relatively small team and I struggled during my first six months to find my place there. I was a bit shy and, to be honest, I wasn’t brave enough do certain things. But thanks to the help of my team-mates, and with the help of Jurgen and his staff, too, I managed to improve.’ – Ilkay Gundogan

‘The Stonewall uprising was a day when brave individuals took to the streets to fight back against harassment and hate, and by doing so, helped to push the long history of LGBTQ activism into a nationwide movement.’ – Sharice Davids

‘I remember after a year in London, I was at an MTV party and a friend saying to me that it was such a brave thing to do to come over to London by myself. I never thought it was a big deal. It was my dream. I am so independent. It is just ridiculous. I am too independent for my own good.’ – Laura Whitmore

‘Memorial Day is a special day to take pause and pay tribute to those brave men and women who lost their lives defending our country and preserving our way of life.’ – Cindy Hyde-Smith

‘I was in the Navy when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked and Flight 93 went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I remember the selflessness of our first responders, including brave New Jerseyans, who were there when our country needed them most.’ – Mikie Sherrill

‘I am playing a brave girl in Thagararu.’ I was told by the director that Madurai girls are naturally brave and during my shoots in the city, I realized that this is true about the girls from Madurai.’ – Shamna Kasim

‘Thirty years ago, this promise, this allure of democracy, drove hundreds of thousands of people in East Germany onto the streets. What courage they showed! It was these brave people, these peaceful heroes and heroines, who brought the Wall tumbling down.’ – Frank-Walter Steinmeier

‘One should be brave. It’s life, there will be ups and downs. It’s only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.’ – Rakhi Sawant

‘Gul Makai’ is a story of a brave heart and a gentle advocate of peace who fought for her right to go to school and became a global teacher.’ – Divya Dutta

‘Pep is a modern coach, he’s intelligent, brave, likes football and always has the players on his side. He knows a lot about football, but Mourinho’s success in all countries where he has been confirms him as the best.’ – Roberto Carlos

‘My sister is outspoken and brave, while I am not. However, I will always support the truth.’ – Ishita Dutta

‘I think we’re pretty brave.’ – Rose

‘I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that’s normal.’ – Shweta Tiwari

‘One of the movies I know affected me was ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch.’ I remember feeling like it was such a brave and scary and awesome movie, and it was so ambitious. I felt really connected to it emotionally.’ – Marielle Heller

‘Brave means that we will try to create something for ourselves. Brave means never going backwards when we can go forwards. That is the bravery that we need.’ – David Wagner

‘I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women standing up to tell their stories – harrowing stories that reduced many of us listeners to tears. But with each story, the taboo around domestic abuse weakens and the silence that surrounds it is broken, so other sufferers can know that there is hope for them and they are not alone.’ – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

‘To actually leave your home and somebody you have probably been with a long time is very brave.’ – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

‘The way Ederson plays is so brave. To dare to play like that is bravery and it also enables City to play with a much higher press. They are able to really press because they know any ball in behind he will sweep up.’ – Kasper Schmeichel

‘Manuel Neuer changed the game completely, probably back in about 2010 at the World Cup. He had been playing as a sweeper keeper before but it was something completely new to see it to that extent for Bayern Munich and for Germany. Both his coaches, Joachim Low and Pep Guardiola; they utilised the fact that he was brave enough to do that.’ – Kasper Schmeichel

‘You have to make sure you lead from the front and put a brave face on it during the tough times to bring people with you and get out of it.’ – Steve Bruce

‘You have to kind of lose yourself and not think about just how brave Mulan is. Yes, I am playing a hero, so we need to bring out that side, but I think every human being is complex, and complex is so beautiful. And that’s where the energy of the character is.’ – Liu Yifei

‘Many years ago, my neighbor told me that his daughter is very brave and she never cries. I was surprised. So, I took it up as a challenge. I met her and sat next to her, staring at her straight in the eye for a few minutes.’ – Tinnu Anand

‘Army wives sacrifice a lot, we need to salute them because no matter what, they always put up a brave face.’ – Mahesh Manjrekar

‘I was offered a screen test for a business show on Japanese TV. I did it for a laugh, really, and I got the job. It turned out to be a pretty brave yet brilliant decision.’ – Mary Nightingale

‘We live in a world with men wanting to be brave. Not many will stand up and say, ‘I don’t feel right here.” – Ryan Mason

‘I think City are probably four or five years ahead of us, they’ve had a manager for such a long time, worked a certain way for such a long time. Going forward, my idea and I’m sure everyone’s idea of Tottenham is to be brave and try and dominate games like they do.’ – Ryan Mason

‘I want us to be brave and aggressive and play like Tottenham Hotspur.’ – Ryan Mason

‘And I desperately needed books that would take me out of my environment and show me a world where being smart and brave and prepared was more important than being cute or cheerful or knowing the right thing to say. And that’s what science fiction and fantasy gave me.’ – Leigh Bardugo

‘You’ve got to admire my courage going into a picture where the dog is a star. It takes a brave man to play opposite one.’ – Fred MacMurray

‘You want to try to put on a brave face, but I think I’m learning that that’s not the case.’ – Becca Kufrin

‘When I served alongside the brave women of our armed forces, who contribute so much to our country despite often facing discrimination on the job, it only strengthened my commitment to fairness and equal pay in the workplace.’ – Ralph Northam

‘I am not a fan of running on treadmills because I think it prohibits you from learning how to pace yourself on your own, so I will brave the winter and run outdoors – and I’ll be honest, the competitive part of me sees the cold weather as a sort of challenge.’ – Andi Dorfman

‘May God bless all of our brave men and women in uniform for everything they do to uphold and defend our Constitution and keep our nation safe.’ – Ned Lamont

‘Heights are a problem for me. I’m not a brave flier and I’d never jump out of a plane or do a bungee jump.’ – Helen Baxendale

‘From a very young age I’d learned to put on a brave face because of losing my mum. I’d always make jokes if anybody tried to throw sympathy at me.’ – Kathy Burke

‘Insulting people doesn’t make you brave, bold, cool or courageous.’ – Mandira Bedi

‘We support films like ‘Thappad’ and so on, but if we aren’t brave enough to speak up for ourselves and stand for what is right, is there any point in celebrating movies that promote this?’ – Sana Khan

‘I’m really proud of the roles that I’ve played and pushing myself to be brave enough to play them.’ – Asher Keddie

‘I try to live my life boldly, making my choices without fear and with the faith that if I am brave, I will find myself in the challenging, inspiring situations I want to be a part of.’ – Asher Keddie

‘To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.’ – Chris Hoy

‘I really hope that there are more young men coming to terms with the fact that they feel things and it’s OK to feel things and to talk about how they feel about things. That’s not weak. It’s brave and strong and good.’ – Phil Dunster

‘She was brave and would try anything. But she was never very confident. She didn’t even think she was particularly beautiful – which turned out to be a good thing because it made her act like a real person instead of a sex symbol.’ – Sean Hepburn Ferrer

‘Watching people getting absorbed in news, I have learned that if the media wants, it can empower citizens with its brave questions. It can make India’s democracy more alive.’ – Ravish Kumar

‘One thing we’ve had to do in our careers, which is hard, is to put on a brave face.’ – Perrie Edwards

‘I am proud to stand with the brave men and women who sacrifice so much to keep our country safe and secure and provide them with the resources they need to transition back into civilian life.’ – John Bel Edwards

‘Yes, this a disease, and men suffering with depression need help. It takes the right person to break through to someone who has been brave enough to reach out.’ – Zoe Ball

‘Brimming with fortitude, Wrigley wears its ability to brave the elements like a badge of honor. More so than any other ballpark in America, it has witnessed blizzards and subzero temperatures. More importantly, it stands as testament to decades of suffering fans, their pain littered throughout the seats and corridors.’ – Gabe Kapler

‘If you’re looking for a MLB example of a guy who was dominant as a youngster and regressed as an additional cautionary tale, Atlanta Brave Steve Avery fits the bill.’ – Gabe Kapler

‘The abuse of power in Hollywood is an epidemic that needs to change and hopefully the women brave enough to speak out against Harvey Weinstein have made other men look at the behaviour and realise it is unacceptable.’ – Keeley Hazell

‘I was drawn to the role of Deena in the ‘Fear Street’ trilogy because she is incredibly passionate, strong, resilient, and brave.’ – Kiana Madeira

‘I can’t remember a Christmas where I didn’t have a rotten cold, and I always get one about two weeks into a job. I definitely get man flu – I’m not brave at all.’ – Mathew Horne

‘God has blessed me so much in my life. A testament to one of his blessings is that he gave me the courage to live my dreams, to step outside the box and be brave, bold, and often irreverent, but most of all he made me resilient.’ – Kenya Moore

‘To me, being masculine means being a great guy, a kind and loving husband, and a hard worker, and being honest, taking care of your family, being a good father, and being brave.’ – Sara Evans

‘I felt brave when I sang and could put into lyrics what I couldn’t tell anybody else.’ – Alison Sudol

‘All of our men and women in uniform, including our brave sailors in the U.S. Navy, deserve to have the best tools needed to carry out their mission to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘Brave people such as my Uncle Leonard were willing to put themselves at risk to preserve what they valued in life and young men and women today continue to make those sacrifices for our country.’ – Shakin’ Stevens

‘When I think about the lyrics to ‘The Wizard,’ some people could probably feel that they’re laughable. But they actually meant something for us, and we were bold or brave enough to show ourselves from the inside out.’ – Bill Ward

‘The first thing I notice when I look in the mirror is whether or not I need a fringe trim. I’m not brave enough to cut it myself – I can’t look like a three-year-old whose mum has cut their hair again.’ – Edith Bowman

‘Fleabag’ is genius: there’s something so brave about a character voicing what we’re all thinking but are too embarrassed to say.’ – Ruth Jones

‘If you ask your players to be brave on the ball, sometimes they are going to make mistakes or get caught out.’ – Robbie Savage

‘I spoke up about my difficulties with anxiety and depression to try to help change people’s view of those problems and improve understanding. You need to be brave about doing it because you know you’ll get negative stuff aimed at you by ignorant people, and I did, but it’s all about toughening up and rising above that. It was worth it.’ – Frankie Bridge

‘Mum was bold and brave and knew herself. She’d pick me up from school dressed in colourful Nigerian fabrics, and even though I’d be like, please just wear jeans, I admired her for it.’ – A. J. Odudu

‘Books on offer to preteen boys, for example, are all too often nihilistic, without a sense that the world is ordered and everything has a purpose and that those who strive hard and behave in noble, brave or self-sacrificing ways will triumph over adversity.’ – Miranda Devine

‘Through the Born Brave Bus Tour and other initiatives, we have provided youth with a safe space to tell their stories and, through partnerships with more than 50 like-minded organizations, with access to resources and services in their communities when talking is not enough.’ – Cynthia Germanotta

‘We owe so much to those brave veterans who sacrificed their health or their lives in service to our country. Removing arbitrary barriers which keep their families from accessing the benefits they deserve isn’t a partisan issue.’ – Nancy Mace

‘If you’re not brave enough to wear a red lipstick, red lip-gloss is always slightly more subtle on the lips.’ – Fearne Cotton

‘I am a patriot. I love my country and its values and I am also immensely grateful to the brave souls who fought and died for our country to be free.’ – Julia Hartley-Brewer

‘I remember recording the Artilleryman’s song ‘Brave New World’ while I was on a big U.K. tour. My voice was a bit whacked. I needed a lot of warming up to hit those falsetto parts.’ – David Essex

‘If you watched, my Bournemouth teams always tried to play on the front foot and play brave, attacking football.’ – Eddie Howe

‘However much of a brave face you put on, you sometimes realise ‘These people are just so much better than me at everything.” – Paul Whitehouse

‘The ones who are prepared to reveal themselves and their lives appear to be the ones we cling to. They seem brave and vulnerable, their ability to unveil themselves – warts and all – seems oddly inspiring, if a little reckless.’ – Angela Scanlon

‘We do not have big corporations or shareholders behind us. That forces us to be imaginative, innovative, brave and be a step ahead in many areas that surround the sports industry.’ – Joan Laporta

‘If it wasn’t for ‘EastEnders,’ I would never have gotten ‘Strictly,’ and ‘EastEnders’ were the ones that were brave enough to hire a deaf, regular actor for the first time ever, and just creating a storyline that isn’t about deaf issues.’ – Rose Ayling-Ellis

‘You need to be brave and confident when you play at the Bernabeu. We have learned how that is the best approach if you want to get a positive result there.’ – Victor Valdes

‘You should be brave enough to do the job that is required of you.’ – Hardik Pandya

‘My parents taught me to be brave and to do what was right.’ – Amanda Redman

‘We used to lead the world with our brave TV, now it’s hard to find something you’re proud to appear in.’ – Amanda Redman

‘Be yourself, tell your truths, and be brave.’ – Andi Oliver

‘That was a real debate for me whether to change my name, which I felt was a lie, or to make up a band name, which I also felt was a lie. So I just felt the best way to deal with that was to be honest about it, and make sure that the label didn’t make it an issue, and just sort of brave the shrapnel.’ – Michael Penn

‘Holy Cow’ is a brave film that I am proud to be a part of. We aimlessly talk about how we live in a fragmented world; this film depicts it with such purity that you are bound to take notice.’ – Sanjay Mishra

‘Now I’m very brave online and in texts, but when someone says, ‘Let’s meet up,’ I’m a wreck.’ – Coleen Nolan

‘The Serve & Protect Reimbursement Program demonstrates our deepest gratitude for the invaluable service provided by our firefighters and law enforcement officers. We owe it to these brave men and women to ensure they have access to the best possible health care.’ – Doug Burgum

‘I think there’s a consideration with lots of things where if you listen well enough and you speak to people then most of the time you will form your own view and your own opinion, and if you are brave enough to say it out loud then you will help people.’ – Leah Williamson

‘I’ve been told I was brave, or that I challenged adversity. Growing up in a middle-class family in Cardiff didn’t feel that adverse.’ – Tanni Grey-Thompson

‘Everyone deals with depression and feeling like they want to give up. It’s about being brave enough to live though.’ – Lacey Sturm

‘We must work with the law enforcement community to support public safety and the overwhelmingly brave men and women who serve and protect our communities.’ – Vernon Jones

‘Brave men and women of our military, law enforcement, first responders and countless others gave their lives on 9/11 and in the years after so that all Americans could wake up each morning free from threat.’ – Brian Mast

‘To me, the stitches that hold our flag together represent the brave men and women who protect us and our families.’ – Brian Mast

‘As the dangers our nation faces become ever more intense and ever more complex, whether from aggressive states such as Russia, from terrorism or from cyber warfare, it’s vital for us to keep our brave men and women at the top of their game both physically and mentally.’ – Gavin Williamson

‘The brave men and women who make up our Armed Forces deserve our thanks and appreciation.’ – Gavin Williamson

‘Dialogue’s brave, brilliant and eclectic list is one that I am very privileged to be joining and I look forward to an exciting collaboration with this pioneering company.’ – Paterson Joseph