Bravery Quotes

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

Be brave. Even if you're not pretend to be.No one can tell the difference.

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Of all crimes the worstIs to steal the gloryFrom the great and brave,Even more accursedThan to rob the grave.

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

The brave venture anything.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

What man dare, I dare.Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watchingmen fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

We can't be brave without fear.

Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and tied up." "Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!" cheeped the Mouse. "Draw and fight or I'll beat you black and blue with the flat." "I haven't got one," said Eustace. "I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting." "Do I understand," said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, "that you do not intend to give me satisfaction?

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)