Best 1109 quotes in «bravery quotes» category

Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

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

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

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

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.

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

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

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

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

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found." "Hooray!

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

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.

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

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

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

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

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.

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!

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

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

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

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.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.

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

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show, especially at first. But when the time of flowers has passed, what as to the fruit?

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

He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne sais quoi, and all he talks about is this magical place called 'Canada'.

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.