Bravery Quotes
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.
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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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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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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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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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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 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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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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If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.
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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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Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.
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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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Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
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Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
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But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
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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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There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.
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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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The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.
