Ann Brashares Quotes

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Sometimes you've gotta take a risk.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

I do not wish to be melodramatic, but at some point I have to say it. If something bad should happen to me, I want you to know that my commitment to what I am doing has been freely contracted, with the joy of knowing that this is precisely what I should be doing at this moment. Fear is constantly present in each one of us, because none of us are movie heroes. But we refuse to accept that fear must condition our actions and prevent us from doing what with a cool head and fervent heart we understand should be done.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Fear is an opportunity for courage.

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'