Bravery Quotes
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Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
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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.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
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Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.
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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
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Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!
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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
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Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I'd like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren't anybody to be looked up to. They're somebody to look down at because they couldn't defend themselves or couldn't protect others without using a gun.
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Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.
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Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
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I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
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Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.
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One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.
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I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.
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When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.
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It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.
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If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.
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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
