Quotes About Bravery

As Mark Twain said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

when you seek out situations where you might fail, failure loses some of its menace. You've been inoculated against it.

But courage isn't just suppressed fear. It's also the knowledge of how to act in the moment.

love something—or someone—so much that you would willingly sacrifice yourself. I want to be brave like that.

All through the history of the world, the virtuous have suffered for causes unseen. Learn from Nal and Damayanti to bear your misfortunes bravely. Like theirs, your evil times, too, will come to an end.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

Potem dobywa nagiego i przetrzymawszy chwilk? w d?oni wk?ada z powrotem do pochwy. Wiedzcie, ?e pi?knie mu z mieczem u boku, a jeszcze pi?kniej – z mieczem w d?oni.

I read somewhere there's a list of things that you do, and one of them is that you attack the attacker. He can't shoot everybody. Everybody's afraid to do anything, so everybody gets shot.

seventy-six-year-old Professor Liviu Librescu, but he was from a different generation. He sacrificed himself by holding the door while ordering his students to escape through the windows. He understood the responsibilities of leadership — the leader, like the captain of a ship, saves himself last.

I would want it to be learned that basically to do something. Hiding or sitting back is not going to accomplish anything. And the gunman would have been successful if my friend Spencer had not gotten up. I just want that lesson to be learned going forward. In times of terror like that, to please do something, don't just stand by and watch.

No guts, no story.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

It was an air one might still breathe, if everyone forgiven was brave.

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season.

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless

What was war, after all, but morale in helmets and jeeps? And what was morale if not one hundred million little conversations, the sum of which might leave men brave enough to advance? The true heart of war was in small talk.

The idea that Sophie could die had always been there, ever since the first diagnosis, and yet it seemed like a bad place on a map, an Ivory Coast, somewhere not urgently frightening because fear itself kept you away from the place. You thought of it as somewhere braver people went, or at least as somewhere you'd have plenty of time to pack your bags for.

hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn

Jackson raised his cane to strike him as he was tackled to the ground.* "The old General sprung at him like a tiger," Tyler recalled, "and manifested as much fearlessness as one could possibly have done.

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

He be Hercules," said Billy. "He just defeated a monster made out of rocks and mud." Robin Hood looked impressed. "Did he indeed?

If you're prepared to do something anyway it doesn't matter if you're afraid.

Life goes on," she says, like a dare.