Quotes About Bravery

Thus are the changes wrought in a man's life—that courage is treasured more than comfort and, in that choice, victory is gained.

1917 (or possibly 1918) poem, 'Greater Love': 'Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead

Yet 'homosexual soldiers were very brave warriors … [and] homosexual officers were especially noted for their kindly treatment of the men entrusted to them'. It was a phenomenon borne out by the experience and practice of officers such as Sassoon and Owen.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare.

It's impossible to frighten such people….

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

But the look on his face was so strange that I hadn't the heart to take his story away from him. He believed it, see. He believed the old gods were on Arthur's side just as he believed that winter would follow autumn and the sun would rise tomorrow. And I thought that maybe that believing would make him strong and brave and lucky when the fighting came, and maybe without it he'd be killed, or turn and run away, which was worse than being killed. So I kept quiet.

ran on blindly into the blind dark.

I felt a little like saying 'Eeeeeeeeek!' myself, but seeing Myrtle so afraid reminded me that I was British, and must be brave.

But that's what bravery is, my dear. The overcoming of fear. If you're not afraid, it doesn't count.

I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not'.

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.

Leave now and live, or stay here and die. Your choice.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

I would have followed Derek to the edge of the world, if he had wanted me to. And then perhaps we would have had to hold hands because it must be quite windy at the edge of the world.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

Pierre Clostermann

Brave men are brave from the very first.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.