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Quotes About Bravery

Yub, Yub, Commander. -Janson
~ Aaron Allston
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
~ Adam Ant
Those macho attitudes include many admirable things: a genuine love of courage, a surprising readiness to celebrate failure if it is bought with bravery, an unsparing sense of the fatality of human existence, a love of the small pleasures that ennoble it.
~ Adam Gopnik (author)
Of the 120,000 British troops who went into battle on July 1, 1916, more than 57,000 were dead or wounded before the day was over—nearly two casualties for every yard of the front. Nineteen thousand were killed, most of them within the attack's first disastrous hour, and some 2,000 more who were badly wounded would die in hospitals later.
~ Adam Hochschild
Here are people who refused to cheat, who eagerly sought out the truth and shrank from neither poetry nor terror, the two poles of our globe - since poetry does exist in the world, in certain events, at rare moments. And there's also no shortage of terror.
~ Adam Zagajewski
One day the fighter pilot guided from the ground will chase, at supersonic speed, the atom-bomb carrier for scores of miles high up in the stratosphere. But science must not become an aim in itself. Only the spirit of attack borne in a brave heart will bring a success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
~ Adolf Galland
Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?
~ Adrian McKinty
Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
~ Adriana Trigiani
For young fellows like them, the war was a chance to become men, to see the world and save it and return home as American citizens. It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure.
~ Adriana Trigiani
A higher goal is always reached by overcoming fear.
~ Adriana Trigiani
There are many gifts a friend brings to a woman's life. History. Empathy. Honesty. Lucky was the woman who kept a childhood friend because that friend remembered what you looked like, who you were, and your people. Lucky was the woman who had a friend from the age of ten, when girls were brave, gutsy, and full
~ Adriana Trigiani
Man was not meant for safe harbor.
~ Aeschlyus
Fear is stronger than arms.
~ Aeschylus
Excessive fear is always powerless.
~ Aeschylus
The brave heart is called to school itself In slow endurance against Griefs that strike deep into the bosom
~ Aeschylus
An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.
~ Aesop
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward
~ Aesop
The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.
~ Aesop
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
~ Aesop