Quotes About Bravery

When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the ones who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator ... It is easy for us all to imagine we are heroes when we are sitting in our kitchens, dreaming of distant suffering.

The frontal attacks puzzled me. Why advance straight into German machine-gun fire? Why not make flank attacks?" These suicidal charges worked occasionally only because Stalin did not care how many of his own soldiers died.

It is never easy being the one who takes the first step. But if we want things to mature in our life, we must fight for them relentlessly without compromise or excuse.

Courage follows action.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

Bold action and bold manner are not the same.

Achilles makes a sound like choking. "There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw." His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector's throat.

Timidity creates nothing.

They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.

He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.

courage is not a matter of age, but true-made spirits.

I drew my divinity up, cold and bracing around me, and went to open the door.

I had a wild thought there, beneath that sky. I will eat these herbs. Then whatever is truly in me, let it be out, at last. I brought them to my mouth. But my courage failed. What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know.

Aristos Achaion." Best of the Greeks.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me.

Are you frightened?" I asked. The first call of a nightingale in the trees at our backs. "No," he answered. "This is what I was born for.

Will you come with me?' he asked. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to troy and I would follow, even into death.

Why should he be peaceful? I never was, nor his father either, when I knew him. The difference was that he was not afraid to be burnt.

You warned me it was not safe. I do not think being frightened will help.

I am no coward". My voice rose, and my skin went hoy. "Your father thinks you are" His words were deliberate, as if he were savoring them. "I heard him tell my father so." "He did not" But I knew he had.

Among our bragging, ranting heroes, Peleus was the exception: a man of modesty.

dux femina facti.

Does no one have the courage? Will no one dare to face me?

Diceva ciò che pensava e restava stupito quando gli altri non facevano lo stesso. Qualcuno avrebbe potuto scambiare quel tratto per ingenuità. Ma non è una caratteristica del genio andare sempre dritto al cuore?