Quotes About Bravery

Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it's needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight…

Now he had to decide--what was the right thing to do? Something that required courage. Something that was frightening, because the unknown was lying in wait on the other side.

Cutting to the heart of the matter, Lincoln made the irrefutable point: "People of any color seldom run, unless there be something to run from." Two SLAVERY AND THE FOUNDERS 1.

No tragedy is greater than that of a single person who is afraid to do the right thing

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

'Horse Soldiers' is the untold story of how a small band of U.S. Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan in 2001, just five weeks after September 11, saddled up on horses, and rode to an improbable victory against a vastly larger Taliban and Al Qaeda army.

What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic.