Bravery Quotes

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

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

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

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

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

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.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

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

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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

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

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

It's a brave new world.

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.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

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.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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

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.

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

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!

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

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."

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

Brave men are brave from the very first.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

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

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

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

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

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

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

The brave find a home in every land.