Quotes About Bravery

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

You see that was Peter's chance to show what he was made of, and he didn't miss his chance. He did the right thing, even though he was afraid. It's a great thing not to miss one's chance.

You see if there were never any danger, there never could be any heroes at all!

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Bravely spoken, mother! cried her son: these sentiments are worthy of a governor. And if it chance that any of the maids should break her neck; the cook get tipsy, or set the chimney on fire; the butler, for joy, let all the malmsey run upon the floor, or down his throat, yon shall not hear a word of such small tricks. If, indeed, an earthquake were to overset the house! that, my dear mother, could not be kept secret.

Come when thou will: I shall meet thee bravely.

Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.

The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my weight accelerates, head-over-heels. Then I think, falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

With my heart racing, I ran in the other direction; leaving the rest of this rescue to people who actually want to be heroes.

courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

As she turns her head and focuses on me, I lift her palm to my mouth, press a kiss in its center. You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

I didn't want to be treated like him," Josie said, answering her mother, when what she really meant was, I wasn't brave enough.

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

Just because I get close to something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable doesn't mean I'm special. It just means I am willing to get close to the things that make people uncomfortable.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled; Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victory.

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

THE RANGER'S VOW LOYAL, BRAVE, KIND AND TRUE— KEEPER OF THE OLD AND NEW— I GUARD THE WILD, DEFEND THE WEAK, MARK THE PATH, AND VIRTUE SEEK. FOREST SPIRITS HEAR ME NOW AS I SPEAK MY RANGER'S VOW.