Top 100 Quotes About Brave Man
#1. The truly brave man is not the man who does not feel fear but the man who overcomes it.
H.G.Wells
#2. Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#3. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.
George S. Patton
#4. I am not a brave man ... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.
Andy Weir
#5. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
#6. A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.
George Henry Lewes
#7. Good boy," said Dr. Van Helsing. "Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God bless him for it.
Bram Stoker
#8. I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!
Terry Pratchett
#9. A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every time, until you were alone and gasping for breath.
Conn Iggulden
#10. She was pretty all right, but he'd had prettier. She was proud and brave,too, but she was also outrageous and outspoken. And, yes, she had the body of a goddess, but she dressed it like a man. She entranced him, she irritated the hell out of him. She was forbidden fruit!
Charlotte McPherren
#11. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
Alexander Pope
#12. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
#13. 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.
Jane Fonda
#14. In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
Edward Abbey
#15. The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Aristotle.
#16. Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Homer
#17. Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.
J.K. Rowling
#18. He wanted to be a man she admired. The way he admired her. He wanted her to think of him as brave. He wanted to be better because of her, and for her.
He was better because of her. She'd changed him irrevocably.
Julie Anne Long
#19. Truly, "the bravest are the tenderest; the loving are the daring." How generous - how truly brave the man who would thus dare death! who would, at the risk of life, perform a truly Christian deed!
Mary Ann Loughborough
#20. Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#21. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.
Sun Tzu
#23. Thoughts of Narian, the strong, brave, tender young man with whom I had fallen in love, juxtaposed against the dark entity I envisioned taking over my homeland, would have shredded my sanity.
Cayla Kluver
#24. 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.
George S. Patton
#25. The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
So to the brave man every land's a home.
Ovid
#26. It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men.
J.K. Rowling
#27. A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal interest.
Khem Veasna
#28. She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
Wilkie Collins
#29. A coward dies many times. A brave man never tastes of death but once.
Richard Laymon
#30. Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful.
Mitch Albom
#32. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
#33. A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person, - when?
Ridgely Torrence
#34. A thinking man can never be brave.
Manoj Vaz
#35. He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
Stephen King
#36. Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
Seneca The Younger
#38. A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed.
A brave and calm man will always preserve life.
Of these two which is good and which is harmful?
Laozi
#39. A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#40. He'd read in a textbook once a quote by the famous Captain Reynolds: I am not a brave man. But bravery, like most things, can be faked. And sometimes, in rare instances, it will lead to the real thing.
Dan Krokos
#41. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#43. I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.'
'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword!
Terry Goodkind
#44. Most men, it seemed to them, went through life never really knowing themselves. A man might consider himself noble or brave or just, they believed, but until he was truly tested it would always be mere opinion.
Robert Kurson
#45. There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.
Elizabeth Alder
#46. A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and
ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy
mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax
cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck
#47. He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend.
Louisa May Alcott
#48. To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.
Aristotle.
#49. And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898
Oscar Wilde
#50. It is the brave man's part to live with glory, or with glory die.
Sophocles
#51. There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
James F. Cooper
#52. He knew he was not a brave man, but he had a great sense of drama. In some circumstances it could seem the same. Forcing
Jane Yolen
#56. A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#57. The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
Aristotle.
#58. A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
James Ellis
#59. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
Hayao Miyazaki
#60. Harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed [ ... ] confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes
Plato
#61. You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#62. A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
Confucius
#63. I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.
Cindy Sheehan
#64. The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.
Josef Pieper
#65. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods,
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#66. You wonderful boy. You brave, brave man. Let us walk.
J.K. Rowling
#67. Being success is not an easy thing. It need courage, fight, brave, and time. Let them judge. Just show them the result later. Because a wise man said that success is the biggest revenge.
Sheilanda Khoirunnisa
#68. There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock ... There is not even a word for time in our language.
Mary Brave Bird
#69. Here's a tragedy for you. Arca the Brave, one of the last heroes of Cape Magister, the man who held the line at the Usurper's Fields, who saw even the mighty Guhl fall and die... now he sleeps on my floor and begs for scraps like a dog. Perhaps there are some wars that are not worth fighting.
Steven Poore
#70. No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.
Lights Poxlietner
#71. Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
Sebastian Coe
#72. No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty - to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.
Jerome K. Jerome
#73. Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
Homer
#75. We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley
#76. Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.
Archilochus
#77. It is a brave man ... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
James A. Garfield
#78. And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
Rudyard Kipling
#79. Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#80. The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.
Brandon Mull
#81. No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Homer
#82. Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
J.K. Rowling
#84. Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.
David Gemmell
#85. Maybe, it takes a brave man to be with a woman like me. In relationships, I don't look the other way, and dim my voice when I have something to say. I learned that I simply don't do well with huge egos, for I always see myself as his equal.
Mirtha Michelle
#86. After all, my young Dodger, what exactly are you? A stalwart young man, plucky and brave and apparently without fear? Or, possibly, I suggest, a street urchin with a surfeit of animal cunning and the luck of Beelzebub himself.
Terry Pratchett
#87. Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
Pierre Corneille
#88. To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.
John Wilmot
#89. Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.
B.R. Ambedkar
#90. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before
and thus was the Empire forged.
Douglas Adams
#91. It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges Bernanos
#92. A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#93. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Quinn Loftis
#94. That's who you are - my brave, loyal, lovable Daughter of Man.
Susan Ee
#95. The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. Finally, that the queen wants a brave, intelligent, devoted man to make a journey to London for her. I have at least two of the three qualities you stand in need of, and here I am.
Alexandre Dumas
#98. When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
Orison Swett Marden
#100. No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."
John Brown
