Brave
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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.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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.
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.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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