Quotes About Bravery

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Courage (risk taking) is the highest virtue. We need entrepreneurs.

Sacrifice for the sake of the group is behind the notion of heroism:

Note that in traditional societies even those who fail—but have taken risks—have a higher status than those who are not exposed.

And when you take risks, insults by half-men (small men, those who don't risk anything) are similar to barks by nonhuman animals: you can't feel insulted by a dog.

Un hombre es honorable en proporción a los riesgos personales que asume por sus opiniones

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.

The original Aramaic version had a wild ass, instead of a wolf, showing off his freedom. But the wild ass ends up eaten by the lion. Freedom entails risks—real skin in the game. Freedom is never free.

Quella sera, la sua faccia e i suoi pochi capelli erano come frustati da un colpo di vento. Aveva occhi spaventati, risoluti e allegri; gli vidi, due o tre volte nella vita, quegli occhi. Erano gli occhi che aveva quando aiutava una persona a scappare, quando c'era un pericolo e qualcuno da portare in salvo.

And Winnie, laughing at him, lost the last of her alarm. They were friends, her friends. She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Closing

He knows you?" said Mae, her frown deepening. "But you didn't call out to him, child. Why not?" "I was too scared to do anything ," said Winnie honestly. Tuck shook his head. "I never thought we'd come to the place where we'd be scaring children," he said.

all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.

One of the most important forms of heroism is the heroism of conciousness, the heroism of thought: the willingness to tolerate aloneness.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self-assured and say, "It's easy for her to be self-assertive, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways we build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness calls on our courage.

To honor the self—to honor mind, judgment, values, and convictions—is the ultimate act of courage.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it

Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, I suppose, would have been frightened out of their wits by the very first of his ugly shapes, and would have taken to their heels at once. For, one of the hardest things in this world is, to see the difference between real dangers and imaginary ones.

Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In

That Church according to Church is too brave, too cunning, and too good to be true is beside the point. America was destined to become a nation of self-fashioned and self-promoting men. What makes his story so special, I believe, is that he shows us how the nightmare of wilderness warfare might one day give rise to a society that promises liberty and justice for all.

They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman." I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.