Bravery Quotes

Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.

~ Kate Morton

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

~ George R.r. Martin

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!

~ Mihail Drumeş

I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.And living is different with surviving.

~ Audrey Celia

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

~ Cliff Gladwin

What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead.

~ Charlotte Brontë

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He was probably a coward,' she said. He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

~ Ernest Hemingway

... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?”“Those are brave words, Tiresias.”“New parents can’t afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.

~ Joe Mckinney

Survival, my only hope.Success, my only revenge.Sarcasm, my only weapon.Bravery, my only shield.

~ Faria Rehman

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

~ Kateryna Kei

He glanced at James before continuing. “If you're going to survive this, the first rule you need to learn is never count on anyone but yourself. Never. People make mistakes, and the zombies are fast. They don't need to sleep or eat anything but us. Don't leave your protection in the hands of someone else.

~ Rose Wynters

On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through the beams on which they stand. And yet the men joke, laugh, stroll across the foot-wide beams as though they are on solid ground. To the people on the sidewalk, tiny as ants below, the skywalkers appear entirely unafraid. A hundred years ago, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers built the skyscrapers and bridges that surround them.

~ David Weitzman

Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.

~ Criss Jami

Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash.

~ C.s. Lewis

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life.pg 337

~ Veronica Roth

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

~ Warren Eyster

Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.

~ Scott Tipton

be at your best when things are at their worst.

~ Elhachemi Sabi

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

~ Frank Herbert

Changing entrenched systems is daunting; the odds against reshaping the nation's police forces are high. But there are few things more important than making sure their profession is the brave, honorable service it should be. We have to do it, or watch our communities and our democracy disintegrate.

~ Ann Medlock

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Bravery is the solution to regret.

~ Robin S. Sharma

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

~ Harper Lee

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..

~ Ellen Hopkins

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

~ Veronica Roth

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love, it is the prerogative of the brave.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

~ Brandon Sanderson

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.

~ Ronald Reagan

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

~ Billy Graham

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

~ Cassandra Clare

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

~ Mickey Mantle

She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

~ Lauren Oliver

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

~ Simone Elkeles

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

~ Gertrude Stein

I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.

~ Harper Lee

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

~ Thomas Fuller