#bravery

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

#bravery #science-fiction #space-travel #time-travel #villains

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#being #body talks #bravery #country #employees

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#bravery #contagious #like #timidity

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. ↗

— Sallust

#bravery #cowards #defense #most #rampart

Bravery never goes out of fashion. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#fashion #goes #never #out

Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down ↗

— Tom Petty

#bravery

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#conformity #cowardice #opposite

I was a lot braver when I was eight. ↗

— Claire Cook

#bravery #age

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield. ↗

— David Gemmell

#fear #heroism #heroism

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#carefulness #caution #over-caution #bravery