Quotes About Bravery

One day in 1987 Fallows was standing at a window in a London bank waiting to be served when a would-be robber named Douglas Bath stepped in front of him, brandished a handgun and demanded money from the cashier. Outraged, Fallows told Bath to 'bugger off' to the back of the line and wait his turn, to the presumed approving nods of others in the queue. Unprepared for this turn of events, Bath meekly departed from the bank empty-handed and was arrested a short distance away.

I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people—teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub—drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that?

had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people—teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub—drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that?

The liver was long thought to be the seat of courage, which is why a cowardly person was deemed "lily-livered.

I looked up—a sheer, flat, white rocky face (the kind you would take a ski lift to reach the top of or wear a parachute to jump from)—and thought: Oh, shit.

Decide that you want it more than you're afraid of it

You must have the courage to follow an unconventional path.

Courageous people are ordinary people like you and me who began at some point to face their fears rather than run from them. When

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear the hat. Would you wear someone else's Medal of Honor? Yes, it's a tribute, and sincere tribute is always appropriate for these brave people. But wearing their symbols is also rubbing off a piece of heroism that isn't yours.

Courage is what makes us do the right thing even when nobody else is doing it.

Hobbes: UGH! something under the bed is drooling. Calvin: Start tying the sheets. We'll go out the window.

My partner and I are very serious about the hero profession.

Be bold if you are going to make an error make a doozy.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand At the mongrel dogs who teach Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

It has always been my nature to take chances My right-hand drawing while my left-hand advances Bob Dylan

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my'

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

Non si resta perché si amano certe persone; si va via perché se ne detestano altre. Sono sempre le cose brutte che ci fanno agire. Siamo vigliacchi.

el terreno de lo posible es muy amplio cuando no hay temor a que la luz se encienda.