Quotes About Bravery

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong.

May you always do what you are afraid to do.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Peace has its victories but it takes brave men to win them

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain

If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle, but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life.

Do the things you fear to do and death of fear will be certain.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right/

I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.

We think that behind that steel door of resistance there's a dragon breathing fire; if we open the door we think we'll be devoured. So often, we open the door, and as someone once said 'we don't find a fire breathing dragon, we find a gerbil in drag.

Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

Will we ever stop being afraid of nights and death? When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.