Quotes About Bravery

Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded. Such a man was Zola!

Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.

To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.

Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded.

Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart's secret places. Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating. Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.

And if I perish, I perish

Ali gestured with her eyes for me to look right. I followed the gesture to Coach Bobby. "Don't you dare fight him," she said. "He challenged me," I said. "The bigger man steps away." "In the movies maybe. In places filled with pixie dust and Easter Bunnies and pretty fairies. But in real life, the man who steps away is considered a big-time wuss.

Kill a hundred, a thousand, on the other side, if need be. But don't let anyone hurt my boy.

But they also were on some base level congenitally brave.

But they also were on some base level congenitally brave. There was a selflessness within them, a purity of action.

Scare yourself every day, and do something that makes you feel totally excited and totally terrified.

Embrace your fear. Imagine what you're most afraid of, touch it and hold it so that you rob it of its power.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you're most afraid of and see what happens when you touch it rather than look away from it all the time.

We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!

Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.

Who would I be to be cowering to a bunch of gutless cowards acting like a bunch of tough guys online?

I like taking on the tough guys.

The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to show you wasn't no punk.

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.

When I first started, it was a dare. Someone basically said, 'You're a tough guy... but I'll bet you won't get on a microphone in front of a bunch of people.' I was terrified, but I did it. Once I broke the ice and got onstage and got some laughs, I thought, 'That's not so bad.'

A tough guy, to me, stands for something, and he's not afraid to get a beating.

I'm a tough guy. I'm ready to battle with anybody.

I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.