Dauntless Quotes

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“You chose us. Now we have to choose you.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."

Her.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.”
― Veronica Roth

“If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.”
― Veronica Roth

“What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.'
And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.”
― Veronica Roth

“I run into fires, not from them.”
― Lauren DeStefano, The Glass Spare

“Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are wrong. My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press... but I resist it, because fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up. I've seen it... it's fascinating.”
― Veronica Roth

“The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were free.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

-Divergent”
― Veronica Roth

“Your soul is the house your sanity lives in. So when love sets your soul on fire, it's burning your fucking house down. The moment you love, your sanity goes up in flames”
― Anne Malcom, Dauntless

“....I'd rather travel in Cargo-nanoships than a Bullet-train to reach my target.”
― Farooq A. Shiekh

“When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous, but they were very often unperceptive. If fear only rumbled through a woman’s soul and glittered through her eyes, then perhaps the man she feared would not be aware it was there at all. He might even think that she was entirely confident, dauntless. He might believe her veneer of bravery.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Paint

“So they don’t go away?”
“Sometimes they do. And sometimes new fears replace them. But becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it, that’s the point.” — Tris and Four”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“God has given us the Spirit of boldness, so that even in the wilderness, we can be dauntless.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“I am Brave.
I am Obstinate.
I am Lionhearted.
I am Dauntless.
Hence, I am BOLD.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“I release the trigger of my gun and drop it. Before I can lose my nerve, I turn and press my forehead to the barrel of the gun behind me.

Shoot me instead.

"One!”
― Veronica Roth

“God has given us the Spirit of boldness, so that even in the wilderness we can remain dauntless.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Because you're from Abnegation,' he says, 'and it's when your acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.”
― Veronica Roth

“People tend to overestimate my character,' I say quietly, 'They think because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“WE BELIEVE
in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives on person to stand up for another
WE BELIEVE
in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent