Quotes About Bravery

I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.

Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.

Malooh, the Bengal tiger,

I don't govern my life according to danger

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

In the weeks following September 11, many in America participated in ceremonies to honor the heroism demonstrated by public safety personnel during and after the attack. These individuals ran in the opposite direction from the people fleeing the World Trade Center buildings. They ran toward the threat, not from it, and, in doing so, gave their lives in the attempt to save the innocent victims.

You have zeal - have you nerve?

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!

The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.

following the herd was not a good thing, that it was a terrible thing to do

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.

Cowardice was the fear of doing something because of the risk to one's personal safety—be it physical, emotional, or professional.

You want me dead? Next time, pretend to be a man and come at me yourself. Don't get someone else to do it for you." Duncan let go of Collier's arm, got to his feet, and stared down the men around them. "You boys have something you want to say?

And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

Most of all, you need moral courage because nursing is about the pursuit of justice. It requires you stand up to bullies, to do things that are right but difficult, and to speak your mind even when you are afraid.

I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

History favors the intrepid.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

Ballantyne made the Big Jump, he and the men with him. They did the biggest thin men have ever done. They reached out and touched the stars. And you tried to hide it, to cover it up, to rob them even of the glory they had coming.

Better to know defeat from courage

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.