Top 100 Quotes About Bravery
#1. War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims. "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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. Scars a testament to your bravery, not a symbol of weakness or inferiority.
Dannika Dark
#3. Bravery isn't something that you have. It's a choice you make, every day, to get the job done." Again,
Kathy Miner
#4. Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
Charles Bukowski
#5. If you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.
Mike Barnicle
#6. I have this theory that selflessness and bravery really aren't all that different.
Veronica Roth
#7. The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.
Steven Cuoco
#8. I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
- Hind Swaraj
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.
Morihei Ueshiba
#10. The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.
Bill Cosby
#11. He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,
only," he added, "ours must be tranquil.
Victor Hugo
#12. I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.
Trent Reznor
#13. You don't have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day's work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.
John Wayne
#14. To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard Thompson
#15. I write in terror ... I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.
Cynthia Ozick
#16. Could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery?
Arthur C. Clarke
#17. I abstain from the people who consider insolence bravery and tenderness cowardice. And I abstain from those who consider chatter wisdom and silence ignorance.
Kahlil Gibran
#18. Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#19. A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
Penelope Gilliatt
#20. I might hatch an idea in my comfort zone, but to bring it to reality requires bravery.
Michael Hyatt
#21. Bravery is standing with the truth and right
Imran Khan
#22. I don't think that being unafraid is the same as being brave. I think bravery is when you go on even though you are frightened. -Alexander tells Arsinoe
Emily Holleman
#23. Once they completed their mission, if they completed their mission, Reyna would make sure Nico was recognized for his bravery.
Rick Riordan
#24. Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.
Oliver Hazard Perry
#27. You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.
Amit Ray
#29. Ordinary points of bravery, the synchronistic moments we all engage in, and the transformative power of minding our voices, forgiving, trusting, and learning to love ourselves and our lives, while we wait.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#30. Where is all your bravery now, Pet? No clawing, no hissing? Where's my though girl? - Caleb
C.J. Roberts
#31. At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#32. Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.
Gayle Forman
#33. I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[ ... ] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
David Levithan
#34. The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck
#35. Courage, Jonathan! That's the only way to live. And remember, bravery isn't really something you feel. It's something you show. I
Robin S. Sharma
#36. But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
Catherynne M Valente
#37. Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.
Tim Sandlin
#38. Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
Astro Teller
#39. Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.
George W. Bush
#40. Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.
Euripides
#41. Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
Rebecca Solnit
#42. Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#43. Sometimes one act of bravery is better than a life lived as a coward.
-Mukta
Amita Trasi
#44. Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.
Pierce Brown
#46. It's all because of you. Your bravery, your zest for life, your ability to shake off the negative. You are radiant now because you chose to be happy and forgive your past.
Jenni James
#47. David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.
Geraldine Brooks
#48. The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.
Gillian Roberts
#49. In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals of hope.
Victor Hugo
#50. Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart ...
Aishah Madadiy
#52. There is no freedom without bravery.
Ben Carson
#53. A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And that should be expected. For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.
Clarence Thomas
#55. The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.
Kobe Bryant
#56. But his bravery was like his mustache, indistinguishable most of the time.
Anonymous
#57. I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
Veronica Roth
#58. I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
Catherynne M Valente
#60. She had drawn strength from everyone else's weakness, hoping that her adrenaline-fueled bravery would carry her safely back to normality,
Robert Galbraith
#61. We don't have to believe the story of our lives we've been told. You're not the same person you were when you first had sex and not the same as you'll be five years down the line. All redefining yourself requires is the bravery to be fearless, and let go of the judgments.
Laura Berman
#62. We are all scared; it is only the bravery that differentiates us from others.
M.F. Moonzajer
#63. Women, never have got full credit for thei bravery, they sacrifice everything to life
Patrick Kavanagh
#64. The boy's bravery solidified something in Thomas's heart. He loved the kid. He loved him as if they had the same mum.
James Dashner
#65. The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing ... On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.
David Levithan
#66. Tracer lighting up the sky.
It's another families' turn to die.
A child afraid to even cry out says,
He has been here.
And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.
James Blunt
#67. Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
Nadeem Aslam
#69. I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#70. Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.
Jewel
#71. Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Aristotle.
#72. The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
Euripides
#74. Alternative to planning on late is to initiate before it's required, to ship before deadline, to put the idea out there before the crisis hits. This act of bravery actually gives you influence, leverage, and control in a way that planning on late never can. Dandelion
Seth Godin
#75. The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#76. It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
Amber Heard
#77. Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.
Paul Neilan
#78. Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save somebody else's life when your own is in danger.
Claire Sylvia
#79. Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.
Gerald Hausman
#80. The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
P. J. O'Rourke
#81. Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!
Hafez
#82. I had believed there was no such thing as redemption. I knew now I was wrong. Redemption had not come from grand gestures of dashing bravery. It had not come from successfully completing twelve impossible labors. Instead, redemption transpired from the small, quiet places.
Brodi Ashton
#83. You are a drab, she told herself, seduced into infatuation by a soldier's tale. Outremer, bravery, crusade, it is illusory romance. Pull yourself together, woman.
Ariana Franklin
#84. I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.
Elton John
#85. Finally, finally, this is what bravery looks like. This is what courage looks like. It has nothing to do with dominating the day, every single day. It has to do with showing up and speaking truth. One true sentence after one true sentence.
Hannah Brencher
#86. Books! Cleverness! There are more important things--friendship, bravery.
J.K. Rowling
#87. Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.
Ann Coulter
#88. Birds-eye view
Awake the stars 'cause they're all around you
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue
Chase your dreams
And remember me, sweet bravery
'Cause after all those wings will take you up so high
So bid the forest floor goodbye as you race the wind
And take to the sky
Owl City
#90. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
Anthony Doerr
#91. Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
Hank Green
#92. Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
Terry Pratchett
#93. The key to warriorship and the first principle of Shambhala vision is not being afraid of who you are. Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#94. Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid
Robert Liparulo
#95. The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality ...
Pema Chodron
#96. To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
Francis Bacon
#97. people talk with a sense of wonderment about the incredible bravery of us Rajputs. This is missing the obvious. Whether it's Father, my brothers, my ancestors, I or my countrymen, we are, it goes without saying, unsurpassedly fearless and valiant.
Kiran Nagarkar
#98. Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#99. Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
Khalil Gibran
