To cultivate bravery and courage, practice, practice, practice. Each time you test your bravery you grow your self-assurance and increase your comfort to a greater degree. Repetition helps build confidence and competence. You did it; now do it again!
“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world”
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.
It takes courage to do aid work but it takes bravery to put your thoughts and experiences out in front of the world.