Brave Quotes

• 'In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot'

  

  Mark Twain
  • Beginning
  • Brave

• he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Wise

• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Gold
  • Brave

• 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.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Deep

• We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

  

  Lisa See
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Kids
  • Strong
  • Sports

• The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

  

  Livy
  • Brave

• President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Country
  • Art
  • Today

• I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Music
  • Business
  • Attitude

• I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

  

  David Mallet
  • Brave

• I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Sea

• Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.

  

  Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Anxiety

• I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

  

  John Buford
  • Men
  • Country
  • Wish

• The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

  

  John Gay
  • Brave
  • Mercy

• I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Women
  • Brave

• Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Children
  • Courage
  • Destiny

• I think there are many ways to be brave and that being brave and vulnerable in terms of a romantic situation is one of the hardest things to do in real life.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Life
  • Real
  • Romantic

• Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Become
  • Acts

• It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Party
  • Positive
  • Years

• My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • People
  • Time
  • Father

• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Lost
  • Letters
  • Forlorn

• I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • People
  • World
  • Brave

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