94 Bravery Quotes To Inspire

In moments of fear and uncertainty, a few well-chosen words can be the catalyst that ignites our inner courage. Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the strength to move forward despite it. Throughout history, poets, leaders, and thinkers have captured the essence of courage in inspiring quotes that continue to resonate today. In this collection, we present the top 94 bravery quotes that will uplift your spirit and empower you to face life's challenges with resilience and fortitude. Whether you're seeking motivation to tackle a personal hurdle or looking to inspire someone else, these timeless words of wisdom are sure to provide the encouragement you need.

1. “When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” - Billy Graham

2. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston S. Churchill

3. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” - John Quincy Adams

4. “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.” - Maya Angelou

5. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” - Theodore Roosevelt

6. “Feel the fear and do it anyway!” - Susan Jeffers

7. “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.” - Arthur G. Lewis

8. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” - Mark Twain

9. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” - Erma Bombeck

10. “You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.” - Mary Tyler Moore

11. “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.” - Mahatma Gandhi

12. “She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.” - Rick Riordan

13. “An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.” - Otto von Bismarck

14. “Without fear there cannot be courage.” - Christopher Paolini

15. “To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.” - Mark Twain

16. “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

17. “Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

18. “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” - Paulo Coelho

19. “He who is brave is free” - seneca

20. “Fear cuts deeper than swords.” - George R.R. Martin

21. “My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.” - Rick Riordan

22. “Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.” - Meg Cabot

23. “Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.” - Marilyn Manson

24. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

25. “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.” - George R.R. Martin

26. “Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...” - Louisa May Alcott

27. “I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.” - Augusten Burroughs

28. “I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!” - C. JoyBell C.

29. “‎"You shouldn't feel so bad about being afraid of so many things." "Why not?" "Because if you weren't afraid never ever, then you couldn't be brave never ever.” - C. JoyBell C.

30. “‎"What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave.” - C. JoyBell C.

31. “You know what I know, Mally. Now you must decide what to believe.” - M.L LeGette

32. “The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.” - Miguel de Cervantès

33. “Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.” - Mary Shelley

34. “We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.” - Madeleine L'Engle

35. “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” - Veronica Roth

36. “Fear can’t hurt you,” she said. “When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.” - Maureen Johnson

37. “So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?""Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!” - Diana Wynne Jones

38. “Life has no victims. There are no victims in this life.No one has the right to point fingers at his/her past and blame it for what he/she is today. We do not have the right to point our finger at someone else and blame that person for how we treat others, today.Don’t hide in the corner, pointing fingers at your past. Don’t sit under the table, talking about someone who has hurt you. Instead, stand up and face your past! Face your fears! Face your pain! And stomach it all! You may have to do so kicking and screaming and throwing fits and crying- but by all means- face it!This life makes no room for cowards.” - C. JoyBell C.

39. “I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.” - Pam Bachorz

40. “Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.” - Pericles

41. “... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?”“Those are brave words, Tiresias.”“New parents can’t afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.” - Joe McKinney

42. “Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?” - Madeleine George

43. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” - Shannon L. Alder

44. “To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.” - C. JoyBell C.

45. “Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.” - C. JoyBell C.

46. “The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected him. He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy which was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all. Doubtless this feeling was due to his unusually acute sensibilities - his keen sense of the beautiful, which these hideous things outraged. Whatever may have been the cause, he could not look upon a dead body without a loathing which had in it an element of reselltment. What others have respected as the dignity of death had to him no existence - was altogether unthinkable. Death was a thing to be hated. It was not picturesque, it had no tender and solemn side - a dismal thing, hideous in all its manifestations and suggestions. Lieutenant Byring was a braver man than anybody knew, for nobody knew his horror of that which he was ever ready to encounter. ("A Tough Tussle")” - Ambrose Bierce

47. “Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.” - Margaret Mitchell

48. “Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?” - Henryk Sienkiewicz

49. “He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has.""It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling."He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. "I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it.” - Rachel Hartman

50. “I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.” - Edward Abbey

51. “A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.” - Veronica Roth

52. “A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturally brave. But what people don't know, is that I grew up with phobias and many fears. I was scared of everything. So, I write of courage not because I have not known fear, but I write of courage because I have walked with fear but I have made the choice not to fear it.” - C. JoyBell C.

53. “In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.” - Cassandra Clare

54. “I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.” - C. JoyBell C.

55. “That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self — struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence — you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” - Ted Hughes

56. “Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.” - Brian Jacques

57. “What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.” - Veronica Roth

58. “He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .” - J.K. Rowling

59. “The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself!” - C. JoyBell C.

60. “Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.” - George R.R. Martin

61. “Have nuts and be nuts.” - Criss Jami

62. “Bravery is measured by how hard you try, not by whether you actually succeed.” - Nancy Straight

63. “The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

64. “There's a fine line between being brave and just not giving a shit anymore.” - Sara Furlong Burr

65. “You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.” - Ilana Waters

66. “Cometh the hour, cometh the man.” - Cliff Gladwin

67. “The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.” - Damon Meredith

68. “Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.” - Shannon L. Alder

69. “He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.” - Stephen King

70. “Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label.” - Hayden Sixx

71. “I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.” - Zoë Marriott

72. “Trusting anyone can get you killed.” - Zoë Marriott

73. “I know what evil looks like under the surface. No matter how beautiful the exterior, how good the lies, I don’t fool myself, not any more. You carry a terrible burden that no one – not even me – can really understand. But that doesn’t change who you are, Frost. You’re a good person. And I love you.” “I wish…” My voice cracked. “I wish I could believe in that.” Luca brushed the dishevelled strands of hair away from my face again and looked into my eyes. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll keep saying it until you do.” - Zoë Marriott

74. “I’ve learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I’ve learned is that you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head.” - Zoë Marriott

75. “I was a lot braver when I was eight.” - Claire Cook

76. “Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended.” - Theric Jepson

77. “Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been” - Criss Jami

78. “The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped” - Lauren Oliver

79. “If it must be done, it's best done bravely.” - Courtney Milan

80. “If the apperance doesn't scare you look out for the mind . If that doesn't nothing will .” - Maria Bernardin

81. “Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.” - Matt Mitchell

82. “She was the bravest person I ever knew.” - Harper Lee

83. “A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.” - Alanis Morissette

84. “I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.” - Harper Lee

85. “Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.” - Ogwo David Emenike

86. “The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!” - Shannon L. Alder

87. “Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed.” - Gerard de Marigny

88. “Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?” - Robert Jordan

89. “You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.” - C.S. Lewis

90. “poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you” - Walt Whitman

91. “Sometime we don't always get what we want!" shouted Evie, not knowing herself. "That's life!"... The Captain, still looking at her, raised his eyebrows in surprise. He was proud of her for being brave enough to shout at (the villain), but he said softly to her, "Usually men with knives at your friend's neck get what they want, Evelyn.” - Elizabeth Newton

92. “Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you.” - Elizabeth Newton

93. “We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.” - Bryant McGill

94. “[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.” - Randy Alcorn