Quotes About Bravery

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

They were never defeated, they were only killed.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.