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Quotes About Bravery

Many become brave when brought to bag.
~ Norwegian proverb
Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
~ John Dryden
To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
~ Comtesse Diane
When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.
~ Jewish proverb
Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
~ Marie Antoinette
I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.
~ Unknown
At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
~ Unknown
We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
~ Thomas Fuller
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
~ Thomas Fuller
Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~ Unknown
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
~ Cervantes
Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
~ Sara Jeannette Duncan
Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
~ Frances Rodman
Courage - fear that has said its prayers.
~ Unknown
(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.
~ William T. Sherman
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
~ G. K. Chesterton
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
~ General George S. Patton
Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
~ E. H. Chapin
Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.
~ Eugene E. Brussell
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
~ Cicero
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
~ Charles Caleb Colton