Bravery Quotes

I don't want to die without a few scars.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Lots of people misunderstand this. They think not experiencing fear means they're courageous. Bravery isn't about not being afraid, it's about persevering despite your fears.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

I might hatch an idea in my comfort zone, but to bring it to reality requires bravery.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.

When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.