Quotes About Bravery And Heroism

#1. The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Barry McCaffrey

#2. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.

Rainbow Rowell

#3. There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

David Gemmell

#4. There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

#5. Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way back to the terrors and perils of that dark land, that he may bring out his sister, or mother, or wife.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.

Ogwo David Emenike

#8. 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

#9. Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

Emm Cole

#10. It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

Richard C. Armitage

#11. They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

Stephen Phillips

#12. Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

James Hillman

#13. To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Richard Thompson

#14. God's purpose for us is that we ought to be
conformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to "be transformed" [Romans 12:2 NIV].

Billy Graham

#15. A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

Warren Eyster

#16. I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

#17. Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

David Gemmell

#20. Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?

Lou Reed

#21. I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.

Jane Goodall