Quotes About Bravery

The result of my newfound courage was climbing the waterfall tunnel, slipping and going over the falls and later diving into a whirlpool. Not very smart. But even though I pursued such foolishness, in the course of this one summer vacation this particular descendant of Abe Sadato became considerably more robust.

I had slept like a log, and I couldn't remember anything frightening from my dreams. This seemed so strange to me that I asked my brother how it could have come about. "If you shut your eyes to a frightening sight, you end up being frightened. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of." Looking back on that excursion now, I realize that it must have been horrifying for my brother too. It had been an expedition to conquer fear.

An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback.

Contrary to what is all too often claimed, voters do not wish the men they have elected to be in their image. Voters love greatness and are capable of recognizing it. They love courage, even when they personally lack it.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Well, even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so he got cautiously up and looked about him.

The only thing for old age is a brave face, a good tailor and comfortable shoes.

She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Fear isn't a weakness. Anyone who's never been afraid is a fool.

we'd stood up to Hitler and the Nazis with the rest of the Allies.

A real coward would have run away and never looked back. Fear isn't a weakness. Anybody who's never been afraid is a fool.

I'm saving it for the Krauts, fathead," Sid said. "I'm gonna kill the first German I see, and every single Kraut I meet from Normandy to Berlin.

It was all Ray could do not to pee his green pants.

1) Be the strongest of the strong. 2) Be the bravest of the brave. 3) Help the helpless. 4) Always tell the truth. 5) Be loyal. 6) Never give up. 7) Kill all monsters.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. — AndrÉ Gide

A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.

We know you weren't in the house', he said, starting up again, cranking himself with the handle. They always say 'We', 'We', never 'I' 'I' - as if they feel braver and righter knowing there's a lot of them against only one.

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Alastair Humphreys