The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

“Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.” 

He who is brave is free.

“The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.” 

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”

“but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself” 

Free should the scholar be, — free and brave… Brave; for fear is a thing, which a scholar by his very function puts behind him. Fear always springs from ignorance… The world is his, who can see through its pretension.

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

There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

This life is not such that we ought to complain when it comes to an end for us or for a loved one; rather, we may look back in satisfaction when it has been bravely and honorably withstood.