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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

—E.M. Forster

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

—Veronica Roth in Allegiant

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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

—Ovid

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If you can't be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.

—Lisa Scottoline in Killer Smile

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Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

—Clarence Darrow

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Ideally, one should have a great deal of courage and strength, but not boast or make a big show of it. Then, in times of need, one should rise to the occasion and fight bravely for what is right.

—14th Dalai Lama

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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Wild Rose

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

—Thomas Fuller

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I don't think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it's the little things that are harder anyway.

—Morgan Matson in  Since You've Been Gone

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I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

—Oscar Hammerstein II

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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

—Paulo Coelho

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