Quotes About Bravery

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on!

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Any girl who would risk her life for someone she loves certainly deserves to be called a lady.

What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?

You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

Deliberately, as if committing himself to something, he stepped forward and walked down the path to the porch and knocked on the front door.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Come on! Who wants to fight me?

I was a coward. I said it aloud to myself: you are a coward. I didn't care. It was better to be a live coward than a dead madman.

There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. It was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.