Bravery Quotes

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it.  Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go.  Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.

~ Gerald Hausman

Why is sensitivity perceived as being dangerous? When we’re sensitive, we feel things we were taught not to feel. When we’re sensitive, we are completely open to attack. When we’re sensitive, we are awake and in touch with our hearts – and this can be very threatening to the status quo indeed.

~ Aletheia Luna

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

~ Jan Wong

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.

~ O. Henry

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

~ John Ciardi

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

~ Gail Sheehy

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

~ Anaïs Nin

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

~ Samuel Butler

Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

~ Anonymous

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

~ Jean Anouilh

There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.

~ John Wainwright

Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.

~ Mason Cooley

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

~ Martin Luther

Many become brave when brought to bay.

~ Norwegian Proverb

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

~ George S. Patton

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

~ Thomas Fuller

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

~ Woody Allen

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

~ Tennessee Williams

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage both as a whole and separately in each country in each government in each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

~ Eddie Rickenbacker

One man with courage makes a majority.

~ Andrew Jackson

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

~ Satchel Paige

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

~ John Dryden

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

~ G. K. Chesterton

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

~ Joseph Conrad

Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

~ Victoria

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.

~ John F. Kennedy

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

~ Comtesse Diane

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Have the courage to act instead of react.

~ Earlene Larson Jenks

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

~ Marie Antoinette

Necessity does the work of courage.

~ George Eliot

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

~ Samuel Johnson

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. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.

~ John F. Kennedy