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Quotes About Bravery

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.
~ William Randolph Hearst
I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward
~ Tupac Shakur
God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.
~ Hannibal
I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.
~ Chiune Sugihara
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
~ Minot Judson Savage
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
~ Raymond Chandler
Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.
~ Archilochus
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
~ James A. Garfield
What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.
~ Barack Obama
The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.
~ George S. Patton
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
~ James Meredith
Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.
~ Babur
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
~ P. T. Barnum
All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
~ George S. Patton
A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.
~ Boris Spassky
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
~ Homer
The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.
~ Alvin C. York
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
~ Fidel Castro
Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
~ Daniel O'Connell
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
~ Thomas Paine
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
~ Raoul Wallenberg
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.
~ Ina May Gaskin
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.
~ Kool Moe Dee