“I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave”
More from Veronica Roth on Courage
“A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”
“Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.”
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
“It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at you bravest”
“Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.”
“Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?”
Others on Courage
Martin Luther King
11 quotes“There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their free...”
Sir Winston Churchill
9 quotes“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory...”
Erica Jong
8 quotes“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the...”
Plautus
7 quotes“Courage in danger is half the battle.”
Napoleon
6 quotes“With audacity one can undertake anything.”
Seneca
6 quotes“Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
Audre Lorde
6 quotes“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whet...”
Cervantes
6 quotes“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.”
Brené Brown
6 quotes“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all...”
Robert Louis Stevenson
6 quotes“To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.”
Henrik Ibsen
5 quotes“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
Plutarch
5 quotes“The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.”