Twitter Bootstrap navbar elements not aligned as desired - css

I am new to bootstrap and am trying to make simple menu/nav.
I am trying to make contents of the menu centered along with the brand. Also when I make the screen smaller the menu items move under the brand. How can I make it so that it doesn't? There seems to be enough space in the nav to not make the items move under.
Note: I have not written any CSS for this.
https://jsfiddle.net/b9smvjn0/
HTML:
<div class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
<div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#account-options" aria-expanded="false">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<h4 class="navbar-brand">Image Box</h4>
</div><!--end navbar header-->
<!--togglable menu items-->
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="account-options">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li>Upload Photo</li>
<li>Deactivate Account</li>
<li>Activate Account</li>
<li>Delete Account</li>
<li>Log Out</li>
</ul>
</div><!--end toggle-->
</div><!--end container-->
</div><!--end navigation-->

I think it's because your h4 element inside the navbar-header. It's adding an extra margin on top and bottom, this is why it doesn't align.
.navbar-header h4 {margin:0;}
I removed it in your fiddle and it's working.
https://jsfiddle.net/b9smvjn0/1/
Is this what you want?
Edit
Hopefully this is what you are looking for.
Note: This is using custom css, so if you plan to stick with pure bootstrap, you'll to do in another way.
I added a div around the brand and the navbar so, we can center both elements.
Also i reduced the amount of padding on the a tag inside the navbar. This is necessary because of the amount of menu items you have.
Then i just used the technique of text-align:center; margin:0 auto; on the container div. It's inside a media(min-width:768); because when it get smaller the layout change, so we get it back to original position.
This the updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/b9smvjn0/3/

To remove the extra space, you can remove the margin for the <h4>. And for centering all the <nav> content, or keeping it on the straight line, use these:
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/oLmnjh3p/

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My question is why does this not scale down properly, when the screen is smaller I want the margins to adjust to fix the screen, but instead it all just goes into a vertical list all mixed my and improperly scaled
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