Quotes About Bravery

When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

How do we work with our minds when we meet our match? Rather than indulge or reject our experience, we can somehow let the energy of the emotion, the quality of what we're feeling, pierce us to the heart. This is easier said than done, but it's a noble way to live. It's definitely the path of compassion—the path of cultivating human bravery and kindheartedness. In the teachings of Buddhism, we

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

La valentía de ella, al fin y al cabo, no era otra cosa que su determinación por sobrevivir.

Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested

The Freifrau, meanwhile, struggled with the demon of timidity.

Wat ik het meest in mensen waardeer is de enige deugd die ze met goden en dieren gemeen hebben, en die je daarom eigenlijk geen deugd kunt noemen. Ik heb het over moed.

As saudades não vencem o medo.

Una de las grandes maldiciones del género humano es la de temer cuando no hay nada que temer, contestó. Este ánimo supersticioso y amigo de los presagios desarma los corazones de los hombres, ablanda su coraje y hace que ellos mismos atraigan las desgracias sobre sus cabezas.

One Irishman, Melaghin McCabb, boasted that he had dispatched eighty Spaniards with his gallowglass axe.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Come up fish. Come to Quint.

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

They were stepping up, not cowering down.

She was a two-seater and I fired five rounds into her. She burst into flames and fell upside down. Although she dropped like a stone, I saw her observer climb out of his seat and jump clear of the flames. He must have preferred that kind of death to the chance of being roasted.3 Captain Albert Ball, 60 Squadron, RFC

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —ATTRIBUTED TO WINSTON CHURCHILL

You dragged me to safety," Marco said. "Jack is the definition of awesomesauce.

Trouble was, they never let on to their sons how scared they was—so scared they forgot the color of a man because he could outshoot the man who scared 'em. And bein ashamed, they never talked about it or discussed it in the family.

The absurdity of a life that may well end before one understands it does not relieve one of the duty (to that self which is inseparable from others) to live it through as bravely and as generously as possible.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.

Thorn illustrated that there lies a point when bravery shades into arrogance, and arrogance shades into idiocy.