Bravery Quotes

"Be brave enough to live life creatively."

- Alan Alda

"When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care."

- Kim Kardashian

"All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him."

- John Wayne

"Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting."

- John Wayne

"All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be someplace else."

- John Wayne

"Bravery is not about not being scared at all. It’s about being terrified and doing it anyway."

- John Wayne

"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

- Winston Churchill

"At many moments in a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them."

- Vince Lombardi

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it, and eventually, the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"To me, fearless doesn’t mean you’re completely unafraid, and it doesn’t mean that you’re bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."

- Taylor Swift

"There are always men like you."

- German Man

"He said in case of winning, he will spend two years staring through the window, but he must also have one thing on his mind in case he lost the fight — if I'm going to be lucky and throw a high kick he might stare through the windows for two years, too with a nurse on his left side."

- Mirko Cro Cop

"We have a saying back home that if you're coming on — come on!"

- Harold Howard

"Who dares wins."

- Winston Churchill

"I didn’t see it, not at all. Like I said, if you are going to play a football game, don’t be a coward and wait until you make one play and do something. Just play football. His celebration doesn’t mean anything."

- Ray Lewis

"Fear No Man"

- InfiniteMind

"With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. … They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing."

- President Bill Clinton in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2011

"Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It’s a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It’s also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend―even a friend whose name it never knew."

- George W. Bush

"I was walking in the street right next to the firemen going directly into the area from which everyone else was evacuating. I could see the fearless intensity in their faces. They were going to put out the fire and save lives."

- Bob Swierupski, 9/11 Survivor

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."

- Aesop

"When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Fearless on the mat."

- Unknown

"Never back down."

- Unknown

"Mind of a warrior."

- Unknown

"Find your inner wolf and face life’s challenges with bravery."

- Unknown

"Live Without Fear"

"The heroes of 9/11 ran into the fire, not away from it."