Quotes About Bravery

Calculation never made a hero.

To play it safe is not to play.

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

In danger there is great power.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

No guts, no glory.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

All serious daring starts from within.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

They have rights who dare defend them.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.