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Quotes About Bravery

Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.
~ Author Unknown
What you call a hero, I call just doing my job.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighting — one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.
~ Author Unknown
Volunteer firefighters do it for free!
~ Author Unknown
You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you.
~ Author Unknown
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~ Susan Diane Murphree
So as you look at the firefighter with his rake, hose or axe, His beet red face or ice covered mustache, You should know why he goes through that smoky front door, And is forced to crawl like a baby down on the floor. He does it to save both lives and property, All that is precious to you and to me. So take a good look at this modern warrior who serves his call proud and true, And know that he would die just to save me and you.
~ Robert J. Athans, unverified
You might be a firefighter if "climbing the corporate ladder" has nothing to do with career advancement.
~ Author Unknown
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
~ Larry Brown, On Fire, 1993
...and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go.
~ T. S. Eliot, 1931
Hope is a choice of courage.
~ Terri Guillemets
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
So you're afraid, eh? he sneered. Yes, I said defiantly and honestly, I am afraid. That's the way with you fellows, he cried, half angrily, sentimentalizing about your immortal souls and afraid to die.
~ Jack London
Under all his cowardice there was a courage of cowardice [...] that would impel him to do the very thing his whole nature protested against doing and was afraid of doing.
~ Jack London
Cesur bir erkeÄŸi ölürken seyretmek, bir korka??n hayat? için s?zlan???n? dinlemekten daha kolayd?r.
~ Jack London
Animava-o a coragem que o medo dá.
~ Jack London
That first repulsion had been really a fear of her undiscovered self, and the fear had gone to sleep.
~ Jack London
Never, in his brief cave-life, had he encountered anything of which to be afraid.  Yet fear was in him.  It had come down to him from a remote ancestry through a thousand thousand lives.
~ Jack London
Questi uomini che stanno per uccidermi sembrano spaventati dalla mia morte.
~ Jack London
overcoming your fear of disclosure
~ Jack Stack
Where cowards never venture, heroes find splendor. So
~ Jack Vance
Folk who turn their backs on trouble only get their arses kicked.
~ Jack Vance
We make a notable company, declared Travante. I am as I am! Sir Pom-Pom is strong and brave, while Madouc is clever and resourceful. Also, with her copper-gold curls, her wry little face and her eyes of heartbreak blue she is both quaint and vastly appealing.
~ Jack Vance
Nema herojskog doba- postoje samo herojski ljudi.
~ Jacob Burckhardt