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Quotes About Bravery

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
~ James Ellis
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
~ James Russell Lowell
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
~ John Donne
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
~ John Dryden
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
~ John Dryden
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
~ John Stuart Mill
Heaven help the man who fights his fear.
~ Kenny Loggins
We're young men; we're not ready to die.
~ Kevin Cosgrove
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
~ Matthew Simpson
A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?
~ Meredith Willson
The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.
~ Meredith Willson
A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
~ Plato
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
~ Rajneesh
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.
~ Robert Falls
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
~ Sophocles
Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
~ Sophocles