“girls’ soccer practice: they are running so hard and shouting so strong with ponytails ponytails ponytails backlit and leaping they are not afraid of you.”— Jenna Jaco, sweettreereview.com
“Bravery is not the absence of fear but the ability to face whatever life gives you even if brings you fear.”— Uge Carlo, twitter.com
“The bravest people are those who are always scared but choose to face whatever life shoots them no matter what.”— Dr. Gia Sison, twitter.com
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”— Alexander Hamilton, twitter.com
“You’re brave enough to leave the relationship when it’s toxic for your inner being and you can bounce back again every time someone breaks your trust.”— Rayi Noormega, thoughtcatalog.com
“Brave does not equal cold-heartedness, lack of softness, or constant strength. Brave is the ability to perform under duress while remaining true to yourself in the process.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“I tell myself no one is going to read my work and that’s how I find the ovaries to get my work put there.”— Roxane Gay, roxanegay.tumblr.com
“Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“At the beginning there was a lot of fear, but I came to the point of knowing I can't be that fearful or let that fear traumatize me or prevent me from doing the work I want to do.”— Geena Rocero, cosmopolitan.com
“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”— Jennifer Lopez, huffingtonpost.com
“A lot of cheap seats in the arena are filled with people who never venture onto the floor. They just hurl mean-spirited criticisms and put-downs from a safe distance. The problem is, when we stop caring what people think and stop feeling hurt by cruelty, we lose our ability to connect. But when we’r…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage t…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”— Juliette Lewis, goodreads.com
“In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com