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• Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

  Pema Chodron

  Thinking, People, No Fear

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Odds

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

  Eli Roth

  Men, Thinking, Brave Face

  "Eli Roth Exclusive Interview THE LAST EXORCISM; Plus Updates on FUNHOUSE 3D, MAN WITH THE IRON FIST, ENDANGERED SPECIES, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

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• I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stress, Cancer, Believe

  "Rippin’ & tearin’ & strippin’". Interview with Joey DiGuglielmo, www.washingtonblade.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, People, Support

  Speech in Bennington, Vermont, September 21, 1928.

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• It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

  Biz Stone

  Stars, People, Important

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• It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Enough, Staying

  Patrick Rothfuss (2014). “The Slow Regard of Silent Things”, p.10, Penguin

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• A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

  Khem Veasna

  Men, Dare, Interest

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• A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?

  Ridgely Torrence

  Strong, Men, Years

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.

  Joe Torre

  Brother, Teenager, Team

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• In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Forgivers are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person.

  Gordon Dalbey

  Pain, Difficult Choices, People

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• You pick out the big men! I'll make them brave!

  Pyrrhus of Epirus

  Military, Men, Bigs

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• CeNation. In Austin, TX, preparing to perfrom for members of our military. In that vein, I would like to let the Rough Riders Platoon know that even though they are going through a difficult time, with brave soliders making the ultimate sacrifice, to keep their heads up, hearts strong, and know that all of them are in my thoughts. Never Give Up.

  John Cena

  Strong, Giving Up, Military

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• It's the moment when you know that you can have what you want if you're only brave enough to say so. It's a split second when everything can change, but you pussy out because you're too afraid to risk the rejection.

  Penelope Douglas

  Rejection, Risk, Pussy

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• Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strong, Fighting, Fate

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.160, Vintage

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• None but the brave can live with the fair.

  Kin Hubbard

  Attractiveness, Fairs

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• Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weapons, Shields, Violence

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• In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Zodiac, Rainbow, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.423, Harvard University Press

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• Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A Nation's Strength”

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• I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

  Natalia Kills

  Brave Face, Faces, Terrified

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• Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

  Juvenal

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

  Emilie Autumn

  Mean, Fighting, Winning

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• Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Victory, Lasts

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn’t like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave.

  Hiroo Onoda

  Mother, Giving Up, Complaining

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