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Quotes About Bravery

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.
~ George R. R. Martin
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
~ Georgette Heyer
Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?
~ Groucho Marx
I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
~ Louis L'Amour
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
~ Lucretius
He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.
~ Lyman Abbott
The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.
~ Lynn G. Robbins
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Bravery is not man's monopoly.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything
~ Malcolm X
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
~ Mark Twain
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
~ Martial
If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain't a good man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
He who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?
~ Napoleon Bonaparte