Quotes About Bravery Heroism

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. The same soul never steps into the river twice.

Edward Hirsch

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

Warren Eyster

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

Richard Thompson

#9. Power Thought: My thoughts are not hidden from God. I know I can change with His help.

Joyce Meyer

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

Emm Cole

#11. 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

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

Ogwo David Emenike

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Jimmy Carter

#15. Lass, you've the face of an angel but the tongue of a snake.

Tricia Levenseller

#16. 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

#17. Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat ...

Daniel Kahneman

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

Alexander Hamilton

#19. 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