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Quotes About Bravery

A man that is afraid is never a man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.
~ Homer
O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes
~ Homer
Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.
~ Ilana Mercer
It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men.
~ J. K. Rowling
He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.
~ Jack Johnson
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
~ James F. Cooper
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
~ James Russell Lowell
I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
~ Jane Fonda
We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.
~ Jane Fonda
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
~ Jean Paul
Alright, manly man," he says. "Go prove that you're a man.
~ Jessica Sorensen
It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.
~ Jim Butcher
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
~ John Dryden
There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.
~ John F. Kennedy
I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
~ John Green
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
~ John Heywood
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
~ John Milton
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.
~ John Steinbeck
For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
~ John Wilmot
When a timid mouse who is a mom needs to be a hero, she does it, because that's what moms do.
~ Stephen H. Segal
I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.
~ Arsene Wenger
Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein