Quotes About Bravery

Hector. My word is simple. Arm and face the foe.

Give me up to the Argives instead of them, O king, and so neither run any risk yourself, and let the children be saved for me; I must not love my own life, let it go; and above all, Eurystheus would like taking me, the ally of Hercules, to insult me; for he is a froward man; and the wise should pray to have enmity with a wise man, not with an ignorant disposition, for in that case one, even if unfortunate, may meet with much respect.

Every thing appears terrible even to the bold, when his foot shall pass across a hostile country.

Mars hates those who delay; but if you fear the weight of arms, now then go forth unarmed

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Twould please me best to fight these Greeks alone.

Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

But the army - let me see - well, I discovered that physical courage depends to a great extent on the physical shape a man is in. I found that I was as brave as the next man - it used to worry me before.

In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

Daddy's girl. Was it a 'itty-bitty bravekins and did it suffer? Oooooo-tweet, de tweetest thing, wasn't she dest too tweet? Before her tiny fist the forces of lust and corruption rolled away; nay, the very march of destiny stopped; inevitably became inevitable, syllogism, dialectic, all rationality fell away

Think of all the fine men we should lose is suicide were not so cowardly

I thought you weren't afraid. I never am --but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

He used to think that he wanted to be goos, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes. In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a streetlamp, he used to think that he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit that in.

He was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor.

Courage—just that; courage as a rule of life, and something to cling to always.

So the men did, and they died.

I knew I'd be tongue-tied soon, so I tried to press my worry down by telling myself what Grandpa Leong used to tell me, that the best way to conquer fear is to act. Open the mouth and tell.