Dauntless Quotes

• It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

  Veronica Roth

  Perfect, Divergent, Alive

  57 Copy quote

• Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

  Veronica Roth

  Fear, Divergent, Wakes You

  "Divergent". www.imdb.com. 2014.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth (p. 47), 2011.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Put on
  The dauntless spirit of resolution.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Resolution

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.343

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.

  Veronica Roth

  Brave, Midst

  9 Copy quote

• I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.

  Veronica Roth

  Self, Order, Difficult

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.70, HarperCollins UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

  Veronica Roth

  Fearless, Divergent, Four

  19 Copy quote

• I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.

  Veronica Roth

  Decision

  7 Copy quote

• Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Failure, Men

  "An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front".

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

  Veronica Roth

  Divergent, Insurgent

  55 Copy quote

• Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Pride, Als

  19 Copy quote

• Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Fire, Example

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.347

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

  Veronica Roth

  Intelligent, Brave, Peaceful

  14 Copy quote

• A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.

  Veronica Roth

  Good Luck, Hands, Car

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.70, HarperCollins UK

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Divergent, Lines

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again...
  Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Life, Freedom, Fighting

  15 Copy quote

• Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

  William Shakespeare

  Yield, Mind, Triumph

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.504

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

  Veronica Roth

  Divergent, Habit, New Thought

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.46, Harper Collins

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Courage, Real

  7 Copy quote

• Yield not thy neck
  To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
  Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
  In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands
  that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Yield, Hands

  16 Copy quote

• If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

  Veronica Roth

  Coward, Divergent, Doe

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

  Veronica Roth

  8 Copy quote

• Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Lying, Safety, Coward

  11 Copy quote

• He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

  Veronica Roth

  Sweet, Strong, Smart

  8 Copy quote

• Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Wind, Sound

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.26, Harper Collins

  8 Copy quote

  Show source