Quotes About Bravery

The children began to cry, and Anatole said, "Forget your fears and dry your tears! Does it matter whether we fly the kite, or the kite flies us? Non! The important thing is, we're together. Maman will loop her long sash about you, that you may sit more safely. True, there is danger, but depend upon it — Papa will find a way back to earth, and soon!

I have no fear! what is in store for me Shall find me self-reliant, undismayed. God grant my only cowardice may be: Afraid to be afraid!

Vai, amico, libero da fardelli e paure (Go forward, friend, unburdened and unafraid). Requiescant in pace (Rest in peace).

Fortuna favet fortibus (fortune favors the brave) -mentioned in The Black Book of Secrets

We must respect courage wherever we encounter it. -Tom

The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food. They are the corpus--you understand that word--the body and also the soul of a nation. Eustaquio, my words are just words, but all through history--and you have studied it--it has always been the many faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation." -The Cripple

The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food. They are the corpus—you understand that word—the body and also the soul of a nation. Eustaquio, my words are just words, but all through history—and you have studied it—it has always been the most faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation.

Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.

He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich.

My education had equipped me to suffer in silence, a form of passive endurance. Even though I know nothing about being brave, I soon realised that self-denial was like self-immolation. It was a state of stasis that relieved one of the responsibility to change things. [162]

A brave little woman,' said the vicar. 'So many of our women are now left alone.' And so they were. Those who in peacetime were expected to need male protection, in wartime were assumed to be able to manage perfectly well. And so they did.

The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but he had fled.

The thing is, Sara, writing's scary. You have to be prepared to go deep......And when your brain's shouting, 'No, no, no, I'm not going to think that thought; it's too dirty, it's too scary, it's too painful,' that's when you must make yourself think it and make yourself write it.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

Be bold. Be brave. Don't thank your lucky stars. The stars can't hear you.

There can be no security where there is fear.

The young doe, Marena, said, "In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of them.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Nada tan admirable como arriesgarse a criticar a los que mandan y a los que matan

Thrust ivrybody, but cut th' ca-ards.

Fiona McIntosh

I am all for people taking action, taking responsibility for their emotions — staring at the beast in front of them and roaring loudly straight back

Martin K. A. Morgan, wrote in Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy,

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.