Quotes About Bravery

the worst evil which befalls our race is, that when we are wronged and plundered, all the world laughs around, and we are compelled to suppress our sense of injury, and to smile tamely, when we would revenge bravely.

having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thousand warriors. He rushes into the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. There is more than mere strength—there seems as if the whole soul and spirit of the champion were given to every blow which he deals upon his enemies. God assoilzie him of the sin of bloodshed! It is fearful, yet magnificent, to behold how the arm and heart of one man can triumph over hundreds.

Scots wear short patience and long daggers.

Ambition, policy, bravery, all far beyond their sphere, here learned the fate of mortals.

If you're afraid of something, then reach deep inside and face it head-on.

Okay," I said. "Let's do something really goddamn stupid.

The antidote to fear is faith.

If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I tried to convince the kids at the bus stop to climb up with me, even a little ways, but all of them said they didn't want to get dirty. Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? I couldn't believe it.

Summers there are awful! Winters there are awful! Why do you stay? You ought to run away! Hop a train! Stow away on a bus! What am I saying? You could just buy yourself a ticket. It would be interesting to talk to you if you did it the other way, though. We could compare scars and bruises. It might be fun.

To hold a mighty heart.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

come on, you" (last words from flight 128)

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

I think I'll go over and introduce myself to that little red-haired girl. I think I'll introduce myself, and then ask her to come over and sit next to me. I think I'll ask her to sit next to me here, and then I think I'll tell her how much I've always admired her... I think I'll flap my arms, and fly to the moon.

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You've hit no traitor on the hip. You've dashed no cup from perjured lip. You've never turned the wrong to right. You've been a coward in the fight.

Sometimes the most courageous thing a man can do is run back across the battlefield and rescue the wounded.

The heart is not only the most unselfish of organs, it is also the most courageous and faithful.

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.