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.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

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.

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

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.

He who is brave is free.

Courage is grace under pressure.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

I’m inspired by strong, courageous women. My mother is the definition of a self-sufficient, independent woman whom I have always looked up to. I also greatly admire incredible women like Aung San Suu Kyi, and human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 4 years in Iran, simply for giving a voice to the voiceless and defending the helpless. And I’m in awe of the young Pakistani student and activist, Malala Yousafzai, for her bravery and resilience in the face of brutal repression.

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

Fear is part of the process. If you weren’t scared, you’d be in trouble.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.