Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.
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.
We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
There was no comparison between [American troops] and the Russian combatants we fought in Afghanistan, who were braver and more patient than their American counterparts.
The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.
Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.
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.
Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
In their daily life, all are braver than they know.
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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.
You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
Lozen is my right hand. . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.
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.
The only difference about us in here and you guys out there is we're braver for about 15 minutes longer. That's it.
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.
Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.