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Quotes About Bravery

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable
~ Barbara Boxer
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
~ Richard Thompson
It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.
~ Amy Poehler
I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.
~ Adam Levine
History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.
~ Asghar Ali Engineer
I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
~ Rafael Nadal
If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
~ Marissa Mayer
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
~ Gloria Steinem
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
~ Alan Paton
One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
~ Werner Herzog
How brave, then, were the Vivaldi brothers and their men when they sailed their galleys past the pillars of Hercules and out of recorded history! We do not know in what form disaster finally struck. What we can guess, however, is that the galleys, emergent objects constituted by a heterogeneous engineer, were dissociated into their component parts. The
~ Wiebe E. Bijker
There breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men's are, dead.
~ Wilfred Owen
The thing is fear cant hurt you anymore than a dream(Lord of the flies)
~ Wiliam Golding
After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door.
~ Wilkie Collins
Her heart beat as if it would suffocate her. She had kept her promise bravely. The whole story of her life, from the time of the home-wreck at Combe-Raven to the time when she had destroyed the Secret Trust in her sister's presence, had been all laid before him. Nothing that she had done, nothing even that she had thought, had been concealed from his knowledge.
~ Wilkie Collins
Don't doubt my courage, Walter, it's my weakness that cries, not me.
~ Wilkie Collins
Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole.
~ Will Durant
A man is as young as the risks he takes.
~ Will Durant
Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole. Probably all three doctrines must be combined to find a perfect ethics; but can we doubt which of the elements is fundamental? X. Criticism
~ Will Durant
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.   Anais Nin
~ William Bernhardt
I dried my tears, and armed my fears With ten-thousand shields and spears
~ William Blake
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly." Isaac Asimov
~ William Boyd
He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators. His Ambassador is his chariot, his klaxon his sword. Weaving into the oncoming traffic, playing 'chicken' with the other taxis, Balvinder Singh is a Raja of the Road.
~ William Dalrymple
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
~ William Faulkner