Quotes About Bravery

our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

Let's investigate the dark cave without that pesky SecUnit" group.

Then Indigo and her warrior sisters had come, and they were strong and intelligent and sensible, when they weren't being rash, silly, and brave to the point of blind idiocy.

I'm a shut up or get your head smashed.

A hero sometimes faces danger," I said. "Like a dragon-slayer or a nurse in a jungle hospital. But don't you think a hero might also be a person who does what no one else wants to do?

Now it was the Germans who had to fall back to new defensive positions. Among the German soldiers who had fought throughout the retreat was Corporal Hitler. On August 4 he was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, for 'personal bravery and general merit'. This was an unusual decoration for a corporal. Hitler wore it for the rest of his life. The regimental adjutant who recommended him for it, Captain Hugo Guttman, was a Jew.

Space exploration was not for the squeamish.

If I had heard that as many devils would set on me in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs, I should nonetheless have ridden there.

We should give heed to what has been said by the heathen poet: "Do not yield to evils but proceed more boldly against them."15

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

four men who do not know each other will hesitate to confront a lion. But once they know each other and feel they can trust each other they will do so without fear.

Before you know what Annakey answered, you must know this: Annakey Rainsayer loved three things and feared only one thing. This makes her unusual from the beginning, for most of us love one thing——ourselves——and fear many things. Because we fear more things than we love, our lives are blown this way and that by our fears.

On the surface, it seems absurd that an animal as big as a horse would be afraid of anything, let alone a fluttering piece of paper. Yet most horses are real scaredy-cats, easily frightened by objects they can't readily identify, especially if these things are moving.

The cave you fear to enter, goes the ancient proverb, holds the treasure you seek.

If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs?

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

There is too much animal courage in society and not 29 sufficient moral courage. Christians

The most important upshot of this,' Polybius concludes, 'is that the younger generation is inspired to endure all suffering for the common good, in the hope of winning the glory that belongs to the brave.

But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

I need the heart of a brave man, the soul of a wise man, the protection of a CIA agent, the humor of a stand up comedian, and the love of Christ Himself.