Quotes About Bravery

It is good to be brave, Lieutenant. It is better to be smart, and much less painful for those around you

No, those few men and women who went against the establishment from time to time, only when necessary, were what ultimately made America great.

Abuse was the weapon of the coward, after all, and those who applied it knew the fact as well as those who had to accept it.

mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Courage, though, he'd once been told, was being the only one who knew how terrified you were.

Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress. The

It's okay to be scared. I was scared all the time. The important part is to know that you're going to do it.

humble rabbit, cornered by a fox, has nothing to lose by striking out, and rabbits have teeth, and sometimes the rabbit gets lucky.

It was scary, and it was lonely, but it was home for Sergeant Chavez.

Being safe is fiction.

If you're mortal, all they can do to you is kill you.

What are the deeds of heroes, except a few frightened people doing the best they can in the circumstances?

we've found is that we don't have to generate creativity from scratch. We just need to help people rediscover what they already have: the capacity to imagine—or build upon—new-to-the-world ideas. But the real value of creativity doesn't emerge until you are brave enough to act on those ideas. That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Indeed, who has a greater right to public respect than the man of color fighting for freedom after having experienced all the horrors of slavery? To equal the most celebrated warriors he need only keep in mind all the evils he has suffered.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

Poor little babies are so afraid of pain that they spurn the myriad sweet wonders of life so that they might protect themselves from hurt. How can you respect that sort of weakness, how can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointments can bring?

Courage is where you find it. Bravery that comes from a bottle-- or from book or from a sermon-- lacks the full strength and purity of bravery that comes straight from the heart.

Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.

Real courage is risking one's clichés.

Remember: no hand is a winning hand 'til you dare to lay it down. - Wild Card

are the Cheerios smiling bravely, insisting that the show must go on?

What do I want? Nothing which you'd call indecent, though I don't see what's wrong with it myself. You want to be brothers-in-arms, to have him to yourself... to be shipwrecked together, (to) perform valiant deeds to earn his admiration, to save him from certain death, to die for him - to die in his arms, like a Spartan, kissed once on the lips... or just run his errands in the meanwhile. You want him to know what cannot be spoken, and to make the perfect reply, in the same language.

Without wiping away the tears, taking a deep breath, or even bending his knees—he leaped. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the wind, you could ride it.

What he might call cowardice other people called common sense.