Quotes About Bravery

Every dog in their home feels like a lion, until a real lion walks in." Giovanni Gambino

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

Early in 1943, when the Germans had ordered that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia be deported to Poland, one man – Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, Apostolic Delegate to Turkey, later Pope John xxiii – acted without thought of political expediency or of what the Nazis might do.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

At the Battle of the Somme in France, more than sixty thousand British soldiers died on the battle's first day alone.476

Courage is contagious.

I don't know that I'm afraid of anything anymore. Once you experience war you can never be the same. You see the world differently.

Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

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Don 't go with the safe choice, go with the right one. It is safer.

Don 't overrate fear and underrate action and spirit.

You are brave if you entered the battle. Don 't let your bravery wane during the battle. Don 't just stay brave, become braver.

Eines Tages klopfte die Angst an die Tür. Der Mut stand auf und öffnete. Aber da war keiner.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

People should always force themselves to do daring things.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Put on a fireman's uniform and walk past the fire because it's your lunch break, and you are dead. Grab a bucket and start throwing water over the blaze and you are seen to be God's little helper.

Fall in love a little and if you are feeling very brave… fall in love a whole [f@%'ing] lot.

Let knowledge live. Burn your fears instead.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.

Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.