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Quotes About Bravery

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.
~ David Gemmell
The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.
~ David Gemmell
Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.
~ Don Ameche
You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.
~ Eddie Levert
A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.
~ Eduardo Chillida
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
~ Edward Abbey
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
~ Edward Abbey
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
~ Edward Young
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
~ Epicurus
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
~ Ernest Gaines
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
~ Esther Forbes
I can stand out the war with any man.
~ Florence Nightingale
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.
~ Gail Sheehy
Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.
~ Gary Larson
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
~ George Eliot
The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.
~ George Herbert
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
~ George MacDonald
You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.
~ George R. R. Martin
That man said he'd take your head too." "Well, as to that," Yoren said, "if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it.
~ George R. R. Martin