Bravery Quotes

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. (Alexander Hamilton)
Bravery never goes out of fashion. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. View quote
George Eliot
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. View quote
George S. Patton
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
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. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action. View quote
Thucydides
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. View quote
Victor Hugo
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. (Sallust)
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was. View quote
Rod Steiger
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. View quote
James Stephens
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. View quote
Richard Thompson
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better. View quote
Eliot Engel
Now I have the bravery to do fine things. View quote
Gabriela Sabatini
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. View quote
Nick Lampson
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny. View quote
Robert Dale Owen
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. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. (Menander)
One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. View quote
Omar Bradley
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us. View quote
Thomas Browne
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. View quote
Philip Sidney