Brave Quotes - Page 21

For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.

Ask Jesus what he wants from you and be brave!

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

I might hatch an idea in my comfort zone, but to bring it to reality requires bravery.

To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.