Bravery Quotes

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage.

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

You can't have bravery without fear...

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

Half of bravery is perspective.

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.