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Quotes About Bravery

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
~ Homer
The Old Man ain't afraid of hell
~ James Thurber
There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.
~ Jimmy Thompson
This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.
~ John Doolittle
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
~ John F. Kennedy
All men would be cowards if they could.
~ John Wilmot
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
~ Jose Bergamin
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
~ K.J. Parker
And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.
~ Lewis Carroll
Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
~ Diane Duane
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
~ Edward R. Murrow
There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.
~ Enson Inoue
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
~ Euripides
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
~ F. H. Bradley
The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.
~ Franklin Knight Lane
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
~ Friedrich Schiller
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
~ John Buchan, The 39 Steps
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
~ Douglas Adams
I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
~ Hugh Shelton
Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
~ Wayne Allard
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
~ A. E. Housman