Quotes About Bravery

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.

How brave that had made her feel, and how vulnerable too.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

Come to the edge, he said. We can't, we're afraid! they responded. Come to the edge, he said. We can't, We will fall! they responded. Come to the edge, he said. And so they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Come to the edge, he said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.

I had the courage to look backward The ghosts of my days

Come to the edge,' he said. 'We are afraid,' they said. 'Come to the edge, he said,' and slowly, reluctantly, they came. He pushed them and they flew.

Audaces fortuna juvat [« La fortune sourit aux audacieux »].

De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace ! »

Ich musste mich zusammennehmen! Ich wollte einfach keine Furcht mehr empfinden! Aber so fest ich mir's vornahm, immer regte sich ein zweites Ich, und dieses zweite Ich - hatte Furcht. Ich fragte mich, was es eigentlich zu fürchten gäbe. Mein tapferes Ich spottete über das feige Ich. Nie habe ich so wie an diesem Tage den Gegensatz der beiden Wesen verspürt, die in uns wohnen. Das eine will, das andere widerstrebt, und wechselnd haben sie die Oberhand.

as eager to attack as they were ready to take to flight;

Car la haine de l'Étranger arme toujours quelques Intrépides prêts à mourir pour une Idée.

Est-ce étrange qu'un simple malaise, un trouble de la circulation peut-être, l'irritation d'un filet nerveux, un peu de congestion, une toute petite perturbation dans le fonctionnement si imparfait et si délicat de notre machine vivante, puisse faire un mélancolique du plus joyeux des hommes, et un poltron du plus brave ?

cuando se es valiente, esto no ocurre ni ante un ataque, ni ante la muerte inevitable, ni ante todas las formas conocidas de peligro: ocurre en ciertas circunstancias anormales, bajo ciertas influencias misteriosas frente a riesgos vagos. El

Sé un héroe «Un héroe es un hombre que teme salir corriendo.» Proverbio inglés

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. —English proverb

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be remembered.

We starve our Monster when we disregard our fears and act.

Publish and be damned.

And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day.

resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark

resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Harry had loved most of the arts long enough to know that artists had to be excused failings which would condemn the general population. The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price. Artists were allowed, indeed encouraged, to lead more libidinous lives on behalf of others who had, of necessity, to leave their jouissance, at the door while they worked.