I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
With exposure also comes more judgement and opinion so I think now is the time for me to just really solidify a safe space and be around people who are encouraging, supportive, and challenging in a healthy way. With what happened during the 2016 election, now is the time that we should feel our most brave and most fearless.
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.
There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight. . . . Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.
I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.
…. it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.
Things are always given to us when we need them. . . You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make it yours. (Acheron)
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.
I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on.
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.
My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.