Quotes About Bravery

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him.

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

The old self must die. He had always known it, but had so seldom acted it. He felt strangely glad that he was at the front. It was the only life; the only death.

Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most profound sorrow can seldom expel it altogether. Vanity in sorrow expresses itself by a desire to appear either stricken with grief or unhappy or brave: and this ignoble desire which we do not acknowledge but which hardly ever leaves us even in the deepest trouble robs our grief of its strength, dignity and sincerity.

Send anyone who preaches war to a special frontline legion -into the assault, into the attack, ahead of everyone.

No tenía miedo, no porque se hubiera acostumbrado al fuego - nunca el hombre puede acostumbrarse al peligro -, sino porque sabía dominar su alma.

Cowardice is knowing what you should do and then not doing it. Confucius

Vous êtes blessé?" Napoleon had asked him. "Je vous demande pardon, sire, je suis tué," the adjutant had replied. And with these words he had fallen from his horse and had died instantly.

Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed

Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes—love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

A youth doesn't bother a man to be brave.

An Austrian punctuality combined with Russian bravery

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

In the human desert, where there are so many lambs, be lions!

Solo los cerebros vacíos, o los corazones inconstantes, tiene miedo de quedar en silencio frente a sí mismos

En el desierto de la incertidumbre humana, donde existen tantos corderos; ¡ustedes sean leones!

En el combate, un hombre miedoso está perdido. El valor, más aún que exponer, se impone, porque la muerte también, con tal de que se la mire a la cara, se deja asustar

So tremendously did he fight that he made killing almost holy...

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

Now I need your hidden love, I'm cold as a new razor blade. You left when I told you I was curious… I never said that I was brave. from "So Long Marianne

Physical courage will make a man brave one way; and moral courage, which despises men's opinions whosoever they be, will make a man brave another way. Both these types of courage made Paul a Christian Daniel in a Roman ''den of lions.'' Men