Quotes About Bravery

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Come and take them

Whilst he was very young, he was a soldier in the expedition against Potidaea, where Socrates lodged in the same tent with him, and stood next him in battle. Once there happened a sharp skirmish, in which they both behaved with signal bravery; but Alcibiades receiving a wound, Socrates threw himself before him to defend him, and beyond any question saved him and his arms from the enemy, and so in all justice might have challenged the prize of valor. But

For the first step towards victory undoubtedly is to gain courage.

Best rear no lion in your state, 'tis true; But treat him like a lion if you do.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others.

They want the centurions not so much to be venturesome and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts.

But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.

Let the night come. We are not afraid.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

There is no other road than the one we take, hard though it be. And no man outlives his weird. Best to meet it bravely, face to face.

I won't lie down and die gracefully. I'm far too cowardly for that.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery