Quotes About Bravery

So be brave in the face of death; be sad at leaving, but don't let those by your final emotions. Let it be gratitude for the life you had. And even if you think there's no one to hear you, say "Thank You.

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, Lilies and laurels over them we lay, And violets o'er each unforgotten head.

A coward dies many times. A brave man never tastes of death but once.

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.

The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.

Some men might make a complicated business of going after a burglar. It was simple and easy, the way I handled it. I crept quietly downstairs and into the dark living-room, and parried a blackjack with my head.

She sat on her porch those first nights, wrapped in the brackish tidal air. The future's breeze split across her face and joined up again behind her. She felt herself a spinster whose sudden new suitor must be either sadistic, blind, or a confused fortune hunter. She'd read all the cautionary fairy tales and knew the one inevitable outcome. Still, she consented to this courtship, and even decided to court it back.

This is her freedom. This one. The freedom to be equal to the terrors of the day.

It's a daring step, but in the world game, no daring is fatal. The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.

The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.

People would rather die in invented safety than live in invigorating fear.

Man is not satisfied with a happy idyllic life: he has the need to fight and to encounter danger.

Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.

Am I willing to walk into the wilds of my interior life without knowing what I'll find?

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Thus the most common one-liner in the Bible is "Do not be afraid"; in fact, someone counted and found that it occurs 365 times!

If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone.

I was seized by doubt. Should I have come here? But going back was impossible. I had fled a known terror, and perhaps I could cope with this unknown terror that lay ahead.

It was fear that had made him fight Gus in the poolroom. If he had felt certain of himself and of Gus, he would not have fought.

It wouldn't be so scary with us around." Roo said philosophically. Tipping his cup, Parker shook more ice into his mouth and slanted Roo a look. "Not true. It's always scary with you around.

With one sweep of his gorry blade three pleecemen's heads roled of into a heep. He shot another through the brane, another fell strangled, an' another, wot had a week hart, fell down dead at the horrible site. Only one was left.

Reading was a brave spiritual journey for Elena Hood, and little piles of books were for her like the stacks of rubble—the Tibetan prayer walls—that marked the progress of pilgrims.