Bravery Quotes - Page 5

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

The brave find a home in every land.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

You can't test courage cautiously.

Boldness be my friend.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.