We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
The only difference about us in here and you guys out there is we're braver for about 15 minutes longer. That's it.
One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.
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.
Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.
My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.
. . . one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.
The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.
He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.
In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on.
I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.
I think you always feel braver in another language.
Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.
In their daily life, all are braver than they know.
