Quotes About Bravery

Patricia saw the Arizona explode, sending dozens of sailors' bodies through the air. The 14-year-old helped terribly burned seamen as they crawled from the water onto her sloped lawn into the shelter of the basement of her house, despite Japanese planes flying overhead.[175] The house was built over an old gun emplacement, and the basement was affectionately known as the dungeon.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

Death is only one way of dying; living partially, living fearfully, is our more common, daily collusion with death.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

Sir Lancelot increased in fame and worship above all men, for he overthrew all comers, and never was unhorsed or worsted, save by treason and enchantment.

for it is better that we slay a coward than through a coward be all slain.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

I fought at Serenity Valley. It ain't about optimism. It's about doin' what's right even when everything's stacked against you.

Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination," Plagueis said. "Courage comes next.

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

If you want a decision, go to the point of danger.

His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: "I'm fighting because you're down here."7

Pickett's charge represented the Confederate war effort in microcosm: matchless valor, apparent initial success, and ultimate disaster.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can't give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that when you go backwards it won't be too far backwards, so that when you start going forwards again you won't have too much to catch up

I guess true courage is when you're really scared but you still do it.

Real religion," said Macmurray, has a different maxim: "Fear not; the things you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

How people admire the courage of the chevalier in the field, charging the enemy, when true courage is the knight who defies his friends.

You don't fear so you live, you live so you fear.

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

The heroism of the working cowboy isn't a joke . . . it isn't something that has been cooked up by an advertising agency, and it isn't something that cheap minds will ever understand. Cowboys are heroic because they exercise human courage on a daily basis. They live with danger. They take chances. They sweat, they bleed, they burn in the summer and freeze in the winter. They find out how much a mere human can do, and then they do a little more. They reach beyond themselves.

There is more to courage than jumping into a river to save someone's life. It is also being willing to speak up and say that something isn't right ~ even if that means going up against what others may believe.