"You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears."
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"And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged."
"We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this."
"Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great."
"I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward."
"Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered."
"The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do."
"Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
"Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow."
"Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash."
"Be brave enough to do the loving thing."
"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer."
"All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory."
"A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a fearless spirit can achieve."
"Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave."
"A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman."
"The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward."
"Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
"There is salvation only for the brave."
"Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous."