Bravery Quotations

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

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

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

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.

In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

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

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

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

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

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.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

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 was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

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.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated as an act of bravery and selflessness - the ultimate standards of good motherhood.

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

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.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

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

We applaud the bravery of someone willing to help put an end to abuse.

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Through our interviews and research we found that the tiger, in Korean culture, is associated with bravery and power.

Come on, somebody be brave.

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.

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!

When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. —Matthias