Quotes About Bravery

Lark Iron Cloud, used to say that if you don't die screaming in this war, then you're fuckin' doing it wrong. At least I'm fucking doing it right.

most people are good," says Jim. "But not when they're afraid.

I do my own stunts. You see someone like Graham Norton would have had a stunt double, but no, I give 100 per cent to my viewers.

I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.

I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.

My mom always instilled in me that it was braver to ask for help when you need it. That has absolutely stuck with me over the years but became even more important in practice once I became a mother. It may sound trite, but the concept of 'it takes a village' really could not be more true.

When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress.

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.

Our veterans gave everything for this great country - often serving in far-off corners of the world and returning with scars, not all of which are visible.