Quotes About Bravery

I've killed a lot of men, Preacher, all brave soldiers on the field. You're the first coward." "Pete, no, no!" Dexter said, raising his hands and falling back into his chair, eyes wide and mouth open. "If it's about Liza, I can explain. No, Pete!

Scat Man Doo and his trusty Shit Stick had gone where no man had ever gone before. And none should ever go again.

On the scaffold, he shouted out the truth to the assembled crowd.

They died honorably rather than like rats in a trap.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

I'm not afraid, but I'm very nervous.

So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone's older brother and someone's older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).

POKUD TI NA N??EM ZÁLEŽÍ, MUSÍÅ  SI TO CHRÁNIT; POKUD MÁÅ  TO Å TÄšSTÍ, ŽE JSI NAÅ EL ZPÅ®SOB ŽIVOTA, KTERÝ TI VYHOVUJE, MUSÍÅ  NAJÍT ODVAHU HO ŽÍT.

DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once

Bogus wondered what he could have thought he wanted. But the kitchen was far too flurried for thinking; bodies were everywhere. So what if dog puke still lurked unseen in the laundry room! In good company we can be brave. Mindful of his scars, his old harpoons and things, Bogus Trumper smiled cautiously at all the good flesh around him.

My father was not a brave or an honorable man; but he had once tried to be brave and honorable. He had been afraid, but he had dared—in his fashion—to pray for Owen Meany; he had done that pretty well.

This ends now, gunslinger. Draw your weapon.

promoted to admiral after a daring escape from the Citadel prison;

We was at Sharpsburg. Charlie still is.

I submit that we are not arguing what is or is not good business. We are arguing the choice of liberty or tyranny. Courage or cowardice!

Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.

When they torpedo the troopship," he shouted, " you can't stand around admiring the view. Jump!