Quotes About Bravery

Courage without conscience," wrote Robert Green Ingersoll, "is a wild beast.

we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. Seneca

what we call valorous niceness is often cowardly and sinful passivity in disguise.

If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

A lawyer who's afraid of jail is like a surgeon who's afraid of blood.

Quiet, ordinary people are often the only people with the real ability to defeat evil. They can give it the Rwandan no.

She showed courage and that's the most difficult thing in the world for any human being to show

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

She never learned to value those things that white people valued. The greatest pride of the Kiowa was to do without, to make use of anything at hand; they were almost vain of their ability to go without water, food, and shelter. Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello. Paulo Coehlo

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

If I must fall, may it be from a high place.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

I am surprised how difficult for people is to say I love you. They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear I love you too back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.