Quotes About Bravery

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

I wanted someone to follow, I wanted him to be brave. But he wants to be brave for me; and no one can do that.

Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal. - Herakles

the maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.

Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Man's immortality is not to live for ever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.

Life is always there for the courageous! But change involves risk... and a kind of mourning for what you leave behind you.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Death is always terrible—no one need be ashamed to fear it. How we bear it depends much upon our constitutions. I have seen some brave men, who have smiled at the cruelest amputation, die trembling like children; while others, whose lives have been spent in avoidance of the least danger or trouble, have drawn to their last painful breath like heroes, striking at their foe to the last, robbing him of his victory, and making their death a triumph.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Courage is the answer. Because courage doesn't negate the problem, it exists within the problem. And when you realize the answer lies in taking the problem and living in spite of it, with full awareness of it, you feel a new option and a new sense of hope and life.

To fully express the true self is at best a calculated risk.

To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.

Be a good egg and speak up.