Bravery Quotes

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

~ Jonathan Swift

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

~ Jean Dubuffet

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

~ Homer

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

~ Mark Twain

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

~ Andri Gide

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

~ Cervantes

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

~ G. C. Lichtenberg

As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

~ Cervantes

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

~ Sara Jeannette Duncan

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage - fear that has said its prayers.

~ Dorothy Bernard

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

~ Winston Churchill

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

~ Seneca

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

~ William T. Sherman

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

~ C. S. Lewis

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

~ E. H. Chapin

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

~ Bliss Carman

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

~ Rebecca Solnit

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

~ Alexander Hamilton

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

~ Leona Lewis

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

~ Omar N. Bradley

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

~ Lady Gaga

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

~ Theodore White

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

~ James Stephens

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

~ Kurt Elling

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

~ Kobe Bryant

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

~ Franklin P. Jones

To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.

~ Hasan Minhaj

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

~ James Harvey Robinson

Bravery is the engine of change.

~ Aisha Tyler