Bravery Quotations | Page 2

I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay. You couldn't come out. It was illegal. But he had a sense of humor about the glamour he was caught in. He's a great sport, and a great star.

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

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

He had the looks of a leading man, ... He was a scholar and correspondent and he had the bravery of a knight.

What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.

There is a kind of crazy bravery about this guy.

I also like the bravery in Garth Ennis' writing. He's not afraid to tackle the hypocrisies of modern religion and things like that.

I was delighted that they were selected. It was a unanimous selection of the dinner committee. I think they're very deserving and exhibited tremendous compassion and bravery and initiative for what they did last spring in response to the tsunami disaster in their homeland of Sri Lanka.

President Bush has failed to put together a plan, so despite the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, we are not making the progress that we should be in Iraq.

I think he would have been so pleased, not just for himself but for the tribe and for his community. Bravery is a cultural value for us. Humility is a cultural value. So, in a way, it's kind of fitting because there's all these other soldiers who wanted him to have it.

We're called The Bravery because that's the mindset I was in when I was writing the songs,

We are not defined by our trials,but by how we face them.We are all afraid; bravery is a choice,that though you may lose, you shall never be defeated.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

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.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

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.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

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

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

You can't test courage cautiously.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

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

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.

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

In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And that should be expected. For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

What happened very quickly was a move away from the bravery of the kids fighting.

As I look at my nation, I am generally impressed by the physical courage of its citizenry but distressed by the lack of intellectual or moral courage. I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage. Yet if my nation is to go down the tubes, I suspect it will be more because of a deficit in its intellectual bravery.

Early season bravery has caused some of the most traumatic injuries I've seen in 21 years in the ski business. Injuries in the first part of the season occur at both ends of the spectrum. Beginners often get hurt because they don't know how to fall or they are in over their heads. Better riders get hurt because they are over confident and push their limits to far.

There's a model of bravery in terms of career and the kind of movies he's tried to do. And the fact that he's still doing it -- I mean, he's as good as anybody who's ever done this. And if you think it's real easy, look around. There's not many guys like him.

As we remember our nation's bravest, let us live up to the ideals for which they fought and died, that we may be not just the beneficiaries of their bravery but stewards of their sacrifice.

It reflected the seriousness of the crime. It validated the bravery that the victims showed in coming forward, telling what happened, and then having to face all the community support we knew he was going to muster for himself.

It is the mixture of great bravery and humanity that made him a hero when he was alive and has ensured his lasting reputation. In the end people just love him.

No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.

It takes a certain kind of bravery and a certain kind of goodness to be able to not just put your destructive past behind you, but to continue to take harassment from society and from police for your past.

it took bravery to get into the ring and risk his pretty face, it took real guts to step out of the ring and risk everything.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies.

In sports we have a tendency to overuse terms like courage and bravery and heroes, ... and then someone like Pat Tillman comes along and reminds us what those terms really mean.

I really try to make them think more about turning their sadness into bravery and feeling pride for their parent and what they're doing for their country.

Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

Gene was a lifelong friend and our professional competition only strengthened that bond, ... He showed great bravery in the months after his surgery, continuing to work as long as he could.

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

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

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur ignotique sacro.]

Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

It's a brave new world.

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

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to.

Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

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

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

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

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!” Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!” “An excellent point,” said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . .

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

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

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

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

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

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

Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

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

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

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

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 does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.