Quotes About Bravery

Perseverance and audacity generally win.

Write to your fear.

If the next blood to be spilled here was his, he would bear it as a samurai should. For death, he reminded himself, comes to all. The only way to meet it is with courage. ~ Seikei

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

I'm not scared any more,' said Midge. 'Thank you, Kevin. Sometimes you can be very kind.' 'Yes,' said Kevin. 'And if you tell that to any of the other trolls I will pull off your nose and feed it to a bear.

To every man upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods." —Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius at the Bridge

A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality." —Winston Churchill

Horatius at the Bridge?

Would a coward or a thief remain a coward or a thief, even if his memory slate was wiped clean? Or could he somehow become courageous and noble? Could not knowing you had a history of cowardice allow you to suddenly become brave? Were bravery and altruism learned qualities or innate ones?

their very ferocity, their audacity, had the opposite effect,

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." —Winston Churchill

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius at the Bridge

Winston Churchill had once famously pointed out that nothing in life was as exhilarating as being shot at without result.

you're right. You're no hero if your act of bravery only makes things worse.

True courage is being scared out of your mind, having everything to lose, and acting anyway.

Then said the brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate, "To every man upon this earth, Death cometh soon or late. And how can a man die better Than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.

Fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales tell children that monsters can be killed." —G.K. Chesterton, (English writer and philosopher)

How can a man die better, he recited to himself, than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods.

you do have to admit SEAL Team Six has the better name. Infinitely more bad ass, right? Green Beret? Really? I get that your little hats are the distinguishing part of your uniform. But did they really have to name the entire unit after them? I mean, was the name Pink Unicorns already taken?" he finished, bursting into laughter at his own joke.

George Patton, who had said, "You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other dumb bastard die for his.

A famous poem I had quoted in a novel came to mind: "And how can a man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods?" How, indeed?

Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste of death but once." —Shakespeare (Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II)

There are two kinds of courage: the courage that holds things together and the courage that throws them away. The first is more common; it is the cement of civilization; it is Lucy's. The second is the courage of drunks and suicides and mystics.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.