#brave

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone. ↗

— Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

#go #i #like #love #person

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#always #believe #braver #me #promise

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#friendship #greatness #loyalty #friendship

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be. ↗

— Aeschylus

#his #resolve #seem

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#being #brave #confronting #help #help people

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues. ↗

— Robert Greenleaf

#bravest #colleagues #even #same #subordinates

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice. ↗

— Marion Berry

#brave #brave men #died #men #more

Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty—they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#love

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#opportunity #rebellion #rebellion

We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#bravery #freedom