Bravery Quotes

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away. -Proverb

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. -John Quincy Adams

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner. -Joseph Addison

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. -Freda Adler

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -Aesop

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly. -Akhenaton

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. -Vittorio Alfieri

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -James Allen

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. -Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -Jean Anouilh

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. -Aristotle

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy. -Aristotle

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. -Aristotle

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. -Francis Bacon

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. -Joanna Baillie

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Barton

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior. -D.A. Battista

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. -David Ben-Gurion

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. -Georges Bernanos

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. -Dorothy Bernard

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. -Mary Mcleod Bethune

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. 2 Kings 6:16 -Bible

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Ephesians 6:10 -Bible

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 -Bible

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. Psalms 18:29 -Bible

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. 2 Chronicles 15:7 -Bible

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9 -Bible

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1 -Bible

Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing. -H. G. Bohn