Top 100 The Brave Quotes
#1. Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
Victor Hugo
#3. It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
Biz Stone
#4. The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport.
Stephen Colbert
#5. Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave
Elijah Muhammad
#7. Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.
Auliq Ice
#8. And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul ... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.
Kate Chopin
#9. The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one' ... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward ... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
Ernest Hemingway,
#10. The host thus forming a single united body, is it impossible either for the brave to advance alone, or for the cowardly to retreat alone
Sun Tzu
#11. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
#12. The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
Democritus
#13. Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.
George Farquhar
#14. The brave do what they can. The desperate do what they must. The crazy do what you least expect. Where do you think I fit in?
Boyd Morrison
#15. Take thou thy arms and come with me,
For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive
To air our cause, although we be but two.
Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,
And we can combat even with the brave.
Homer
#16. America the brave
Still fears what we don't know
Macklemore
#18. If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.
Krishna Dharma
#19. The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads. And yet I do not think
Geraldine Brooks
#20. I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.
Kirk Douglas
#21. The French have a term for this brazenness: je m'en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.
Mark Matousek
#22. But the warriors true, the brave of heart
Who valiently upheld the right
They are raised on high to the velvet sky
Bringing light to the darkness of night
Brian Jacques
#23. There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.
Art Buchwald
#24. The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
Raymond E. Feist
#25. To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru ... sucks to be you.
Peter David
#26. History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
Edmund Morris
#27. I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#28. Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
Homer
#29. The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson
#30. Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
Robert A. Heinlein
#31. Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
William Butler Yeats
#32. Last, but by no means least, courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle_ the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur
#33. Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
Robert Toombs
#35. I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.
Donna Lynn Hope
#36. The brave men did not slay the dragons. The brave men rode them.
Unknown
#37. Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave ... gets over it.
Rickson Gracie
#40. God himself favors the brave.
Ovid
#41. It is important for all of us to show our support for the brave men and women in the United States military.
Ty Warner
#42. The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
Samuel Smiles
#43. The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
Jean Giraudoux
#44. Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
#46. Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.
Preity Zinta
#47. Creating a meritocracy requires equal participation by both the hippo, who could rule the day by fiat, and the brave smart creative, who risks getting trampled as she stands up for quality and merit.
Eric Schmidt
#49. The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
George Sewell
#50. A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end.
Simon P. Clark
#51. Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave.
John F. Kennedy
#52. The two boys stood and looked at each other. There was no amusement and no scorn in Attean's eyes. How very strange, Matt thought. After all the brave deeds he had dreamed of doing to win this boy's respect, he had gained it at last by doing nothing, just by staying here and refusing to leave.
Elizabeth George Speare
#53. I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.
Novak Djokovic
#54. And regardless of whomever I'm with for whatever amount of time, I'll be with myself the whole time and I want to be good to her. I want her to have a heart like an ocean: endlessly vast, full of wonder, and navigable only by the brave.
Kelton Wright
#55. Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave.
Terry Deary
#56. Let the people talk, let people doubt, and let
people question you, but never allow yourself to quit walking your path. Their path is their own and the path you walk is that of your own. Sweet child of mine, be the brave child of mine.
Forrest Curran
#59. The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them.
Patrick Henry
#60. Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!
Henry Chorley
#61. The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price.
Hanif Kureishi
#62. A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
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Dandelion
Andrzej Sapkowski
#63. Fortune favors the brave.
Terence
#64. Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.
Susan Sontag
#65. I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments ... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.
Sheryl Crow
#66. Ah, never shall the land forget
How gush'd the life-blood of the brave,
Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet,
Upon the soil they fought to save!
William C. Bryant
#67. Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.
Sara Teasdale
#68. Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.
David Hewson
#69. The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
Publilius Syrus
#70. crushes the adventurous, the brave, the sensitive, and encourages the timid, the opportunist and time-serving, the sneak and the bully. It surrounds itself with
Shashi Tharoor
#71. If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.
Muhammad Iqbal
#72. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
James Russell Lowell
#74. None but the brave can live with the fair.
Kin Hubbard
#75. If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#76. Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter.
Hartley Coleridge
#77. Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.
Tom Chatfield
#78. Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
Dave Grohl
#79. The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
Minot Judson Savage
#80. 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!
Charles Lamb
#81. Still glides the stream
and shall forever glide
its form remains its function never dies
while we the brave and the mighty and the wise
we men who in our youth defied the elements
must vanish-
be it so
William Wordsworth
#82. The American Dream has been defended, in every generation, by the brave men and women willing to fight and die for America. They are our greatest national treasure. They deserve a serious Commander-in-Chief.
Leon Panetta
#83. The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
Seth Godin
#85. The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Du Mu
#86. Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.
Maggie Young
#87. Twenty-eight years, Kenny," Will panted. "Twenty-eight years thinking sex was for the lucky and the brave. Then I find out I can close my eyes, think of you, and become a frickin' god - now c'mon and make me a god!
Amy Lane
#88. There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.
Jimmy Thompson
#89. The brave aren't called the brave because they weren't scared, Elena, neither the courageous, nor the heroes. All of those people written in history have one thing in common: fear, and plenty of it, but that is when true courage shows itself
Adrienne Woods
#90. The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.
Nelson Mandela
#91. The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
Jose Marti
#92. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.
Lord Byron
#93. Sick of this State
Of that Stateless States
That moves at this rate
That Knocks at the Gate
And Yearns for the remains
Of the brave new fate.
Khalid Chaouch
#94. When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.
Richard Attenborough
#95. How sweet is mortal Sovranty!" - think some: Others - "How blest the Paradise to come!" Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!
Omar Khayyam
#96. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Ben Lerner
#97. All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.
Dale Carnegie
#98. Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Katherine Dunn
#99. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE
Jules Verne
#100. Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.
A.D. Posey