Brave Quotes - Page 37

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.

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

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Don't be afraid to go against the current, when they want to steal our hope, when they propose rotten values to us, values like food that has gone bad-and when food has gone bad it makes us sick, these values make us sick. We have to go against the current! And you, young people, be the first: Go against the grain and be proud of going against the grain. Go on, be brave and go against the current! And be proud of doing it!

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

The brave are always stubborn

Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever.

I'm not brave at all.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Be bold. Be kind. Be brave.

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

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.

Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can hold onto them is a desire. Writers and artists are trying to record these things they can no longer have. We're a heartbroken lot. Taking pictures is a brave act in which you try to explain and remember a thing you can't have anymore.

The brave are parsimonious of threats.