Quotes About Bravery

He'd felt the same way some nights on patrol, hearing the jungle shift and creak around him in the dark. His head saying, go ahead, take your best shot, I'm not scared of you slanty-eyed buttwipes. And at the same time his heart was trying to parachute out his asshole.

He will help us carry it. Look! Our king enters in before us, and he will fight for us. Let us follow bravely, fearing no terror. Let us be prepared to die bravely in battle. Let us not be dishonored by fleeing from the cross.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

War is not as the people at home imagine it, with a hurrah and a roar: it is very serious, very grim.'5

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Is it okay to be scared?" Of course. You should be. It's scary. Wedding planning is The Conjuring for Basic Bitches. And marriage itself is The Shining: Terrifying, but also a well-respected classic.

By the heavens!' he exclaimed. 'Anyone who can save the captain's life and tame that wild beast certainly deserves to be a member of this crew, female or not.

Hesitation is a half way to death

Fortitudo/sapientia - strength and bravery/wisdom and humility

dare to be different

people who keep dogs . . . are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. August Strindberg

too tired to run and too afraid to rest.

Until then we must carry on and have courage.

Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war!

Want hij is zeventien jaar - precies de leeftijd waarop je alle reuzen, draken en heksen aankunt.

In de oorlog had ik daar wankel op de hoge hakken gelopen, met een jurk aan en een hoofddoek om. Om mijn broer te bewijzen dat ook ik geschikt was om illegaal werk te doen. Maar voor de garage kwam ik een jongen tegen die ik in jaren niet gezien had en die zei: 'Dag Jan!' Ik ging terug, trok de kleren van mijn zuster uit en bemoeide me verder niet meer met de oorlog.

We're all broken. Some of us are just in more pieces. It's how we handle it that makes us brave, and from where I'm sitting, you're the bravest person I've ever met.

I opened my mouth to do some calm explaining. "I'm gay." is what came out.

Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.]

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard ) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.

I had it in my head. I thought I had it in my heart—in my body—but I didn't; not really. I couldn't. It was too scary, like stepping off a cliff without knowing if there was a trampoline below. It meant doing life differently.

Danger is everywhere, but fear, that's a choice we make.