Best 1109 quotes in «bravery quotes» category

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

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

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.

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

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

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

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

True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

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

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

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

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

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

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.

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

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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

We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

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

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.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

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?

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.

When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed.

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

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.

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

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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

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?

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

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.

With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

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

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

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

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

You can't test courage cautiously.

You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.

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.

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.