Browsing Topic Best Bravery Quotes

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

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

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

He who is brave is free.

Serenity comes from the ability to say Yes to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say No to the wrong choices made by others.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

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.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

Dance training can’t be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.