Quotes About Bravery

What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism" p 61

A good surgeon needs courage for which a good pair of balls is a prerequisite

Screw your courage to the sticking place." - Lady MacBeth

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

I'm afraid that I won't do the right thing in the face of disaster. Or, I'm afraid I will be stupidly brave.

Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.

You can't really stop going places because you're frightened.

What do you dare to gleam out and reflect?

The cowards!

And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.

Aprendí que el coraje no era la ausencia de miedo, sino el triunfo sobre él... El hombre valiente no es aquel que no siente miedo, sino el que conquista ese miedo". NELSON MANDELA

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

It was a relief to decide you didn't have to decide. It was a relief to have faith in immutability, a relief to lose faith in your ability to change something, even when it was something you'd wish you could change. It was a relief to be imposed on intractably. Acceptance, if not brave, was at least a relief. That was the trick of it.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

A majority can never replace the man…. Just as a hundred fools do not make one wise man, an heroic decision is not likely to come from a hundred cowards.

The world is not for cowardly peoples.

When he reached the edge of the inner circle, Ewan drew his sword. A gust of wind howled through the bailey, sending a shiver snaking down his spine. It all seemed so unreal, yet here he stood ready to defend his wife—or die trying.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —ANAïS NIN

We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.

My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

Pat Tillman is a hero of mine.