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    Robert Liparulo
    “Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid”
    ― Robert Liparulo, House of Dark Shadows
    tags: bravery, fear
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: belief, bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, strength
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    Stephen King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Nelson Mandela
    “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
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard
    Some do it with a bitter look
    Some with a flattering word
    The coward does it with a kiss
    The brave man with a sword”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    tags: 1897, betrayal, bravery, courage, love, remorse
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir
    tags: bravery, courage
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
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    Veronica Roth
    “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: brave, bravery, courage, dauntless, experience, life, training
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    Mark Twain
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage
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    Andrew Solomon
    “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
    ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
    tags: belief, bravery, courage, depression, eating, exercise, food, future, life, living, love, loved-ones, medication, memories, reason, strength
    2050 likes

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    Veronica Roth
    “A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: bravery, dauntless, four, tris
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: courage
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: bravery, courage, identity
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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: belief, bravery
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
    tags: afraid, bravery, common-sense, fear, idiots, scared
    601 likes

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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade
    tags: bravery, foolishness
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  • #19
    “Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”
    ― Cher
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    Erma Bombeck
    “All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: bravery, carpeting, children, courage, housekeeping, parenthood, parenting
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bravery, fearlessness, morality
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    Mickey Mantle
    “A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”
    ― Mickey Mantle
    tags: boys, bravery, cowardice, gangs, groups, teams
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    Cassandra Clare
    “In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: bravery, will-herondale
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  • #24
    “A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn't hide. You didn't wait for the perfect moment to settle on you like a butterfly, like magic.

    You went out and made magic. Made your own wishes come true.”
    ― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly
    tags: blade, bravery, fear, kill-me-softly, sarah-cross
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...”
    ― Louisa May Alcott
    tags: anonymity, bravery, unsung-heros
    46 likes

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    Teri Hall
    “Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.”
    ― Teri Hall, The Line
    tags: bravery, fear, teri-hall, the-line
    34 likes

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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”
    ― Mark Twain, Joan of Arc
    tags: bravery, wisdom
    68 likes

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    Jeanette Winterson
    “If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: bravery, growth, resolution
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I am quite possibly the world's bravest coward. I have never backed down from backing down from a fight.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
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    Anna Quindlen
    “The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.”
    ― Anna Quindlen
    tags: bravery, courage, world
    54 likes



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