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Quotes About Bravery

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Faith is reason grown courageous
~ Sherwood Eddy
You, there, girl! Halt!" Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to?
~ Sherwood Smith
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
~ Shimon Peres
She'd rather go down like a roaring lion than a bleating ram.
~ Shirlee Busbee
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.
~ Shirley Jackson
The cold hard fact of courage is that it has to spring from within. Because it's opposite, fear, lives inside of us as well...fear really is alive, even when it's just sitting there, free from its influence. Still we are aware how dangerous it is. How debilitating it is, how crippling and how it stops us some times.
~ Sidney Poitier
Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Soldiers are dreamers.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
When Dick was killed last week he looked like that, Flapping along the fire-step like a fish, After the blazing crump had knocked him flat…. "How many dead? As many as ever you wish. Don't count 'em; they're too many. Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Light many lamps and gather round his bed. Lend him your eyes, warm blood, and will to live. Speak to him; rouse him; you may save him yet. He's young; he hated war; how should he die When cruel old campaigners win safe through? But death replied: "I choose him." So he went, And there was silence in the summer night; Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep. Then, far away, the thudding of the guns.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Why live on the edge when you can jump off it?
~ Sign at Macau Tower Bungy Jump
To be a Witch, you must be brave enough to face everything inside of you, and have the courage to change the things you do not like. Being a Witch has nothing to do with spells, rituals, and unusual clothing—they are the fun stuff. To be a Witch is to desire personal transformation.
~ Silver RavenWolf
Have you ever eaten flies?" Mendiondo asked. "Yes, when I was a kid, on a dare. Of course, I tore off the wings and tiny legs before I ate it.
~ Silvina Ocampo
They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.
~ Simon R. Green
La guerra, explicaba Napoleón, no era «un arte difícil», sino «una cuestión de ocultar el miedo el mayor tiempo posible. Solo de ese modo se logra intimidar al enemigo y el éxito está fuera de dudas».
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
To all the people who fought back.
~ Simon Wood
being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
~ Simone Elkeles
Being brave is not as easy as it looks.
~ Simone Elkeles
Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
~ Simonides
We did not flinch but gave our lives to saveGreece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
~ Simonides
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.
~ Sinclair Lewis