Quotes About Bravery

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

My father and brothers were in the military.

Military firefighters put their lives on the line each day - not just to defend our country, but also to selflessly defend their fellow servicemembers.

I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.

September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

It is important for all of us to show our support for the brave men and women in the United States military.

I have dedicated half my life to military service.

I'll fight anyone for enough money. Give me half a million dollars.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

I think it's really important for everybody out there to speak their minds, and not be complicit and let fear back you into this corner where you just let everything go by. It's a responsibility.

On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

Mindfulness is the opposite of this tendency. We must invite these things up into our mind consciousness every day and tell them, "My dear, I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of my fear.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.

Starling discovered that she had traded feeling frightened for feeling cheap. Of the two, she preferred feeling frightened.

How do we define courage? Courage is behaving in a way that conjures up fear. Yes, Larry, courageous people, entrepreneurs, recognize the fear in what they are doing. But they deal with it. They overcome their fears. That's why they are successful.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

If ever they did shoot her, she would probably stand there protesting,

for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain.