Quotes About Bravery

Wörter meine Fallschirme mit euch springe ich ab

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

The truth was never easy, and it was never simple, and it had a way of breaking your heart. Thus men chose its imitation whenever possible and made the world fit the shape that suited them best. Smith believed man created God and Truth both in his own image, and he attached no blame to that. He had long ago decided that most people got along as best they could, trying to be brave, trying to be good, trying to subdue the terrors of life with whatever expectations lay easiest to hand.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Surely, only a lunatic would walk off a cliff, drink cyanide, fire a loaded gun at his head, or walk into a Texas country & western bar with a T-shirt reading "Willie Nelson Sucks

On the whole, however, it is not our own liability to death which oppresses us. The fear of it to a brave man, not to speak of a man of faith, can be overcome. It is the fear of it for others whom we love, which is its sting.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Even so, it was a goodish yarn, with plenty of derring-do, and I added some derring-didn' t-really-but-it-sounds-good, just to keep up her glowing opinion of me.

Olen ehkä ääliöiden kuningas. Viimeinen vesa sammunutta dynastiaa... Sitä joka uskoi jalouteen!... Urheuteen.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Well, there you are: a hobbit amongst the Urukhai. Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. You are inside a very great story! Letter 66 From a letter to Christopher Tolkien

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Death with honor is better than a life of degradation.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. Douglas MacArthur

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.

They were expendable.

You've heard the talk; that he's a wastrel, a playboy. But he is kind and he is brave. Much braver and kinder than me. He took the Moonrun. I never did that. He saved Kojo Asamoah's life. He went back, in vacuum, to save him. Everyone forgets that about him. The Asamoahs didn't.

Sometimes I think we're all gentlemen of the road. It's just that most of us haven't got the courage to take that first step.

I know people talk about the opposite of truth and the opposite of love. What is the opposite of fear? The opposites of unease and panic and regret?

L'audace! L'audace! Toujours l'audace!

I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.