Quotes About Bravery

Why?" Rhett's mouth twisted in a smile. "Because she was so full of fire and so recklessly, stubbornly brave. Because she was such a child beneath all her pretenses. Because she was unlike any woman I had ever known. She fascinated me, infuriated me, drove me mad. I loved her as consumingly as she loved him. From the day I first laid eyes on her. It was a kind of disease.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow, with black eyes, and hair as dark as the raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.

My lord," said D'Artagnan, "Monsieur de Vallon [Porthos] is like me, he prefers service extraordinary—that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and impossible.

There are no creatures that walk the earth, not even those animals we have labelled cowards, which will not show courage when required to defend themselves.

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

It concerns the point at which courage is the logical and sometimes the only possible outcome of integrity.

Va, et advienne que pourra. Go, and come what may.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

They said my heart's desire aloud, giving me the courage to acknowledge it.

Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once?" Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was.

Don't be afraid of anything, only fear death.

Life is a difficult choice between our loves and our fears. Love is the better use of a life, if you can find the courage for it. Love is hard, brave work, while fear is too easy - it is an early grave of comfy chairs and magazines and wasted heartbeats and hormones.

Simon Cameron: "I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life's success—but he died bravely in the discharge of his duty.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

Few people realize how much courage it takes in a community like ours to ignore the established taboos.

Work hard, love hard, be generous, be thoughtful, be brave, and know the value of sharing a great story, especially if it makes you laugh.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Act as if were impossible to fail.