Quotes About Bravery

She was the one who went after the criminals. Not the other way around.

It's all right," the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. "My grandmother always told me 'Never try to turn back on a new road—you don't know what adventures await you.

There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn't done... the paths you hadn't taken, the things you hadn't experienced.

I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

No woman should be afraid to sparkle.

Remembrance Day is a timely reminder that, in what may be some of Britain's darkest hours, it is the bravery of millions of ordinary people from all races, religions, and backgrounds that have kept our country's flame burning and stood up for the values we hold dear.

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

When people go get chemo, they're not injecting themselves with will - I have lost various loved ones to cancer, and I certainly don't feel that I am any stronger or braver than them.

Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, and brave.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

I remember that when people started listening to what I had to say, I had a choice to set up a veil, even if it meant being something that I'm not. Ultimately, that's not the decision I made. I owned more of everything I am, which was a little nerve-racking.

It definitely helps that I can bet big with ice water in my veins.

It was the summer of 1968 or so, and Dad and my little brother were out camping. While up in the mountains, my brother was bitten by a rattlesnake. As they raced back to the base, my dad sucked out the venom and used his hands as a tourniquet and probably save his life, for it was a serious bite, and he was just a little kid.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

My Dad, Sgt. Howard Scott, from tiny Washington, Vermont landed in Normandy and fought with his unit inland to St. Lo France where his tank hit a landmine and he was severely injured, losing both his legs. But he thought he was one of the lucky ones.

Est-ce que c'est possible qu'on soit lâche quand on a choisi les chemins les plus dangereux ? Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?

Still, maybe a good challenge was just what she needed to bring her back to herself. So perhaps the best thing to do was simply to call her and tell her—let loose the dogs of war and let the chips fall where they may. It was a wonderfully mangled metaphor, which made it seem even more convincing, so I stepped away from the group of cops and reached for my cell phone. Deborah

Give me liberty or give me death," I told him. "Death is much easier to arrange, I'm afraid," he said, shaking his head. "Maybe," I said. "But I have to do what I can.