Quotes About Bravery

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality, of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Fortune favors the audacious.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and [if] there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.

Courage is a quietness, not martial music made Born of facing up to life, even when afraid.

I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointment, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.