“It s not the size of the dog in the fight, it s the size of the fight in the dog.”
“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, Hi. They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”
“Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.”
“My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.”
“Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don t get up for a third.”
“So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch? Not likely! I m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I m not doing it!”
“Fear can’t hurt you,” she said. “When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.”
“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.”
“Until you re ready to look foolish, you ll never have the possibility of being great. ”
“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They re just braver 5 minutes longer.”
“there’s nothing to discuss there’s nothing to remember there’s nothing to forget it’s sad and it’s not sad seems the most sensible thing a person can do is sit with drink in hand as the walls wave their goodbye smiles one comes through it all with a certain amount of efficiency and bravery then leaves some accept the possibility of God to help them get through others take it staight on and to these I drink tonight.”
“In Will s experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn t, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn t.”
“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
“I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There s nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.”
“It has always seemed to me that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn t about what people call you, Spensa. It s about who you know yourself to be.”