Quotes About Bravery

I'm only as brave as I have to be . . . and I do not want to have to be this brave.

A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

I am wild, if you like; but I stayed in my burrow a long, long time, - nibbling your straws and snapping at your fingers, but always just a little out of reach. Until at last I got to trust you so much that one day I ventured out for a minute, - and you threw rocks at me. And I will never come out again.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

she persuaded him to execute her instead by slowly immersing her in boiling pitch. The beauty of her character as she faced death inspired the conversion of several other people, including one of her guards, Basilides, who was likewise martyred.73

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. —Kobi Yamada

Having scanned the faces of the spectators, Andre mounted the wagon, stood on the coffin, removed his hat, and lowered his shirt collar. "It will be but a momentary pang,' Dr. James Thacher heard him say. Seizing the noose, Andre brought it over his head, tied a knot under his left ear, and placed a handkerchief over his eyes. When asked for his last words, the British officer raised his handkerchief. 'I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.

Andre mounted the wagon, stood on the coffin, removed his hat, ad lowered his shirt collar. 'It will be but a momentary pang,,' Dr. James Thacher heard him say. Seizing the nose, Andre brought it over his head, tied a knot under his left ear, and placed a handkerchief over his eyes.

The person who fears death, will never do anything worthy of one who is alive," as Seneca says.

He would expect me to flee from him. Therefore, I would not. I would flee towards him.

Etty saw Rowan, daughter of Robin Hood, lifting her green kirtle, her brown braid lashing like a wildcat's tail as she tried to run.

Two different kinds of people exist: Those who wade cautiously into the shallows and those who throw themselves headlong into the roaring surf.

having children seems to demand a completely different level of courage

Life isn't all about money, Keely. Remember what you and Isabelle used to call yourselves? Surfside Sisters? Because you would both leap into life instead of dawdling at the edge, waiting, until it was safe.

If you run from enemy fire, I'll make you wash dishes for the rest of your life!

Roxy doesn't run from fights at school. . . . You've got to stomp them till they beg. You don't run.

She could run. There's her dad's voice in her head, saying, Take care of yourself, sweetie. And there's her mon's voice in her head, saying, You're a hero, act like it.

I wanted to confess that if someone took out a gun and killed me onstage he would be doing me a favor.

Occasionally, and for everyone's good, mankind were instructed to offer a fresh and juicy princess to their own particular dragon. It was said that the princesses enjoyed the experience. Certainly the dragons did.

Ask forgiveness, not permission,

It requires more courage to suffer than to die

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.