Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

Bear Grylls

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

Bear Grylls

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Brandon Lewis

We are always pleased to see our customers finding success with our software. Entrepreneurs, by nature, are very brave people. Taking a business online has unique challenges, but our products and services continue to help thousands of small businesses successfully establish an online presence.

Lesli Linka Glatter

Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening - these are all brave women. They've all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier.

L. Neil Smith

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Katy Perry

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

L. Neil Smith

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Katy Perry

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Cheryl Strayed

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Charles Godfrey Leland

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

Bernhard Schlink

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Tim Ryan

As we remember our nation's bravest, let us live up to the ideals for which they fought and died, that we may be not just the beneficiaries of their bravery but stewards of their sacrifice.

Victor LaValle

On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

David Dreman

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Barbara Mertz

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Michael McGuire

Essentially, he has served about 85 percent of his sentence, which was all he was supposed to serve. He got no special favors or anything like that.

Carlos Delgado

At the beginning, that was their approach, ... It doesn't matter if you're Latin, American or Italian, if we're going to talk business, talk business. I'm not doing you any favors, you're not doing me any favors because we're speaking in Spanish. I'm a man first.