Quotes About Bravery

No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.

The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire; is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation.

Daring also means to act, however, and if you are not willing to act, then you have already lost the game.

Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything.

These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off.

Those who don't try never look foolish.

Wherever we find monsters, there, too, we also find heroes.

I went north I did not try to hide myself. When a god or a demon saw me, then I would die, but meanwhile I was no longer afraid. My hunger for knowledge burned in me there was so much that I could not understand.

I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

without fear, we'd have no need for religion or war.

I dare to fail greatly so that I may achieve greatness.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.

Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.

Fear is overcome by doing what we fear to do. Action defeats fear, just as scissors cut paper.

All courageous people have fear. They just do things anyway

On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time.

I liked that they had more balls than I ever did to just stand up and say 'Why' or 'No' or 'I don't care if there is a war on and a massive IED threat. I like watermelon so I'm going to steal a car I can't drive and run a Taliban checkpoint in order to go to the market.

During the 1980s, across a long, bitter uprising against the Soviet Union, Afghan mujaheddin had not participated in suicide attacks. The mujaheddin's prideful, family-supported ethos of jihad emphasized individual bravery and, where possible, living to fight another day. When the Taliban conquered Afghanistan during the late 1990s, Mullah Mohammad Omar and his commanders did not employ suicide bombers, either.

Death is but a moment, cowardice is a lifetime of affliction.

What I learned from that moment is that when you face your fears, they aren't as big as you thought they were. What makes them big is when you don't turn around to face them head-on. The longer you avoid your fears, the bigger they grow in your mind.

Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins." "I will kill twenty!" Lydia declared. "I will kill thirty!" Kitty countered. Mary paused for a moment of sober calculation. "I will kill thirty-two." she said. "I will kill as long as I must," said Jane. "And I will kill as long as I can," said Elizabeth

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.