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It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

— Lena Dunham

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

— Ginnifer Goodwin

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.

— James Comey

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

— Bear Grylls

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

— Craig Ferguson

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

— Arianna Huffington

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

— Kurt Elling

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

— Emilie Autumn

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

— Christian Bale

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

— Bear Grylls

✗Opposing Perspectives

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

— Franklin P. Jones