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35 Fierce Quotes For When You Need To Be Reminded Of Your Own Bravery

(A)aron Anderson

35 Fierce Quotes For When You Need To Be Reminded Of Your Own Bravery

Because it can be all too easy to forget your own strength. 

Heidi PriebeJuly 21, 2016
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Sometimes you have to face up to your fears to realize that they aren’t actually real.

— Zoe Sugg, Girl Online: On Tour

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    He'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

    — Tamera Alexander, Within My Heart

    LoveTaking A Chance

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    It’s hard to go. It’s scary and lonely…and half the time you’ll be wondering why the hell you’re in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires.

    But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful… It will open up your life.

    — Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

    BraveryCouragestrengthbeautyIndependence

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    When you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

    — Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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    I realized that we are only brave when we have something to lose and we still try. We can’t be brave without fear.

    — Muhammad Ali and Hana Yasmeen Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

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    Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of that moment you question if you should say something, there comes bravery from within that allows you to continue with words you might regret. But under the surface is hope. Under the surface you wonder, can they reciprocate these intense feelings you have?

    — Kirsten Corley, Because I Can’t Make You Love Me If You Don’t

    LoveRejectionBraveryFeelingsUnrequited Love

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    We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage.

    — Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

    FearCouragestrengthFinding Your Voice

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    True confidence involves acknowledging we don’t always feel confident, that we’re not always right or the best, and feeling at peace with that. When we are confident, we have nothing to prove because knowing that for ourselves is enough.

    — HANNAH BRAIME, Struggling With Confidence? These 5 Truths Might Help - Becoming Who You Are

    ConfidenceCourage

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    So pluck up your courage and take that risk! Add another story to the book of your life. Even if it doesn’t go the way you planned or wanted, you’ll still learn from it. 

    — Neil Patrick Harris, Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

    AdventureCouragerisks

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    There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.

    — Iain Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.

    HappinessHuman NatureCourageInspirational

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    The act of being vulnerable is a courageous act.

    — Bryan Reeves, Tell the Truth, Let the Peace Fall Where it May: How Authentic Living Creates the Passion, Fulfillment & Love You Seek

    CourageInspiringVulnerable

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    You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not
    always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once
    but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have
    because history has shown us that courage can be contagious
    and hope can take on a life of its own.

    — Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama in her Own Words: The Views and Values of America's First Lady

    comfortableLifeProblemsHistoryCouragePower

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    So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

    — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

    MistakesLifechancesCourage

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    How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we’re going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that’s our sign to keep going.

    — Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

    ImpatiencePerserveranceMoving ForwardPressing OnCourageResilienceNot Giving Up

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    It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.

    — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

    FearCourageElizabeth GilbertBig Magic

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    The scariest moment is always just before you start.

    — Stephen King, Writing Tips From Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’

    WritingFearInspirationalCourageWisdom

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    I find that fear and not wanting to take risks, and staying too comfortable makes people wait. They’ll say, ‘I’ll wait until this happens, I’ll wait until I go to film school, I’ll wait until I have all the money, I’ll wait until they ask me.’ Don’t wait for permission. Seek without permission. There’s nothing to wait for. There’s no one coming. There’s nothing coming to do this for you. You have to do it yourself.

    — Ava DuVernay, Balls of Steel

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    You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

    — Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

    impossibleSelf-DirectionDeterminationPerserveranceChangeTrusting Yourself

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    You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

    — Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

    impossibleSelf-DirectionDeterminationPerserveranceChangeTrusting Yourself

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    The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.

    — Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die

    AdventureOpportunityChanceTaking RisksTaking ChancesComfortComfort ZoneBreaking Free

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    You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how, you love. There is courage in that.

    — Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

    CourageExpress YourselfMagicExpressWritingOpen Up

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    Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.

    — Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance

    LoveLove LettersWhat Could Have BeenTaking A ChanceTaking Risks

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    When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life and that I can’t do.

    — J. C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year

    ActionTaking ActionTaking RisksDoing It ScaredFear

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    I have faith in your strength, in your ability to rise back up after the fall, in your persistence to fight through the worst days of your life and in your courage to start over. I have faith that you will find your way out of the darkness and slowly let the light back in. I have faith that you will heal yourself because you can; because you will.

    — Rania Naim, Here’s What I’m Going To Tell You Instead Of ‘It Will Get Better’

    ResilienceThought CatalogFaithLife

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    If you feel like you’re in control, you’re just not going fast enough.

    — Mario Andretti, No Title

    ControlExcitmentTaking RisksLifeLiving Boldly

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    Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

    — Meister Eckhart, No Title

    ConfidenceSelf-ConfidenceTaking ChancesTaking Risks

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    Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

    — Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

    LoveRelationshipsFighting For LoveTaking RisksLeap of FaithFalling In Love

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    You will either step forward into growth or you will step backward into safety.

    — Abraham Maslow, No Title

    GrowthChangeSecurityTaking RisksTaking ChancesMoving Forward

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    You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

    — Nora Roberts, Dark Witch

    HappinessWorkTaking Risks

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    Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

    — Hunter S. Thompson, No Title

    ExcitmentTaking RisksTaking ChancesEnjoying Life

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    The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

    — William Golding, Lord of the Flies

    FearPainDreams

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    You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

    — Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama in her Own Words: The Views and Values of America's First Lady

    Self-improvementDecisionsLifeFearpossibilities

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    Fear begets fear. Power begets power. 

    — Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    FearPowerMindsetPerception

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    Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

    — Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    FearPerceptionstrength

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    Be brave enough to break your own heart.

    — Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

    BraveryCouragestrengthHeartbreak

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