Best 1109 quotes in «bravery quotes» category

I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

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.

I wasn't doing it to shock anybody or to be rebellious or to get attention making "Heart-Shaped Glasses" with Marilyn Manson. I was more proud of that than anything because it took a lot of strength and bravery to put myself out there like that. It was a risk. I'm glad that I did it because usually the best things I've done have come from the biggest risks. Thirteen was a risk and that was amazing.

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

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

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

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.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

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

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

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

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.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

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

No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

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

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

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!

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.

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.

One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.

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

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.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

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.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Playing so many important games in a prestigious competition like the Champions League, I have experience to call upon and I'm thankful for that. I hope the other players can feel more confident because of that. Of course we're facing a very tough tie; we know Juventus F.C. are the favourites, but sometimes excitement, desire, effort and bravery can overcome individual ability.

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

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.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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.

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

Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.