Quotes About Bravery

everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody is willing to be different.

As children, we were afraid of the dark. Now as adults, we are afraid of the light. We are afraid to step out. We are afraid to become more.

greatness. It is true: an army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep! I am a person of action.

Courage is not merely one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at its testing point.

So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.

Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

Anybody who says he's not scared is either a liar or mentally deficient.

How could one man take praise, take the pats on the back and the medals and the bullshit, when so many of his friends were dying out there in the dark? Unrecognised, without praise, dying alone with their legs blown off or their guts spilling out over shrapnel? Bainbridge was a hero, but he was alive, and for some reason he held this against himself. The true heroes of the war were the men whose songs went unsung, whose lives were extinguished. The ones who died alone.

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

Simply recognizing the need for change does not define leadership. The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees…A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act on what he sees, to speak up when everyone else is silent.

Leaders are not always the first to see an opportunity. They are simply the first to seize an opportunity. It is the person who seizes the opportunity who emerges as the leader. But fear has kept many would-be leaders on the sidelines, while good opportunities paraded by. They didn't lack insight. They lacked courage.

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

God had called and equipped David to lead. But it took an act of courage for that call to be recognized by the public.

Doing it anyway" is really the only way to ensure that fear doesn't rob you of an opportunity. "Doing it anyway" is the essence of courage. Courage is the willingness to move in a direction in spite of the emotions and thoughts that bid you to do otherwise.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage assumes fear. If we had waited for our fear to subside before we took that first plunge off of the high-dive, we would all still be standing there waiting. We just jumped anyway. Courage is the willingness to strap on your fear and move ahead.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Hay que ser muy valiente para vivir con miedo. Contra lo que se cree comúnmente, no es siempre el miedo asunto de cobardes. Para vivir muerto de miedo, hace falta, en efecto, muchísimo valor.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

How pleased I was to see I strick the Beast to the heart.

He is on the point of becoming a revolutionary pornographer, but he, finally, lacks the courage.

Lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero

Being alive isn't a betrayal. Being afraid to live is.

Madame Boulle, in spite of her experiences among the highest English families, was amazed at the coolness shown by Lady Emily. A grandchild in danger of drowning, a young man in danger of a pneumonia and a bronchitis, and she was entirely calm, not even impressed by Pierre's bravery. Bravery in the face of danger, Madame Boulle explained, was the characteristic of her family.