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Quotes About Bravery

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
~ Sophocles
To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.
~ Sophocles
Press on, press on, men.
~ Stonewall Jackson
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
~ Tacitus
No man easily admits that he is afraid.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Why not be a man and fight like a man.
~ Tito Ortiz
Wars are begun by frightened men.
~ Tom Clancy
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
~ Tom Lehrer
The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
~ William Cowper
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
~ William Shakespeare
By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.
~ William Shakespeare
What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.
~ William Shakespeare
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
~ William Westmoreland
For us military men, it is impossible to forget.
~ Andrei Grechko
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
~ Samuel Smiles
A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.
~ Thomas Brooks
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
~ Herman Melville
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
~ Homer
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
~ Homer
Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.
~ Jackson C. Frank