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Quotes About Bravery

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
~ Pliny the Elder
A brave man is seldom unkind.
~ Pretty Shield
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
~ Robin G. Collingwood
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
~ Thomas Paine
... there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Men, we don't need you in shining armor. We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.
~ Virginia Madsen
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
~ Ben Loory
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.
~ Thomas Campbell
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
~ Thomas Carlyle
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
~ Winifred Holtby
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Too many men are afraid of being fools.
~ Henry Ford
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
~ Homer
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
~ Jean Paul
People are scared man, they're scared of the void.
~ Joe Rogan
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
~ Charles Bukowski
The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
~ Dennis Rainey
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
~ Dorothy Gilman
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
~ Elbert Hubbard
People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.
~ Evel Knievel
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton