Quotes About Bravery

Hans Castorp had found courage up here--if courage before the elements is defined not as a dull, level-headed relationship with them, but a conscious abandonment to them.

Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely not. Rather stay and look matters in the face, brave them out; perhaps precisely in so doing lies a lesson for us to learn.

There are crimes that no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good'.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!

You're chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre (attributed to a French observer during the Charge of the Light

He taught me that if you've got guts, you can do any damned thing, guts and patience. Impatience is a costly commodity, Pete.

Life expands or contracts in proportion to one's courage.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

We have to dare, to dare again, always to dare...!

It's funny how a person who evinces bravery in the face of many dangers will become a pathetic example of abject timidity when it comes to putting something strange in his mouth.

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

troubles. Lord Ransley had enough courage and

There are times in our lives when the Lord calls us to seize the opportunities presented us. When we must, no matter how hard or fearful, summon the courage to step out into the unknown, brave the darkness, and embrace the dawn. With the Lord's help, though, such seemingly impossible feats become not only attainable, but essential.

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Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)