Fiona Apple Quotes

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.