Bravest Quotes

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be. (Aeschylus)
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. View quote
Harper Lee
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. View quote
Thucydides
The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love. View quote
Rick Riordan
Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others. View quote
Brian Jacques
An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. View quote
Pericles
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. View quote
Bayard Taylor
Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall. (Rick Riordan)
Nico," he said gently, "I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest. View quote
Rick Riordan
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die. View quote
Juliette Lewis
Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer. View quote
Linda Lael Miller
Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story. View quote
Bob Newhart
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all. View quote
Isabelle Eberhardt
Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues. View quote
Robert K. Greenleaf
I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you. View quote
Ruth Wilson
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny. View quote
Steve Buyer
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest/strongest . (Julius Caesar)
The stories of the Manet brothers [ Edouard and her future husband Eugène Manet ] tell about all the horrors we are likely to face, they [in Paris, during the war between France and Germany] are almost enough to discourage even the bravest of us. [But] you know they [the Manet brothers] always exaggerate, and at the moment they see everything in the blackest possible light. View quote
Berthe Morisot
Who shall guess what I may be? Who can tell my fortune to me? For, bravest and brightest that ever was sung May be - and shall be - the lot of the young! View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading... Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history,-with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. View quote
John Herschel
To speak of joy and to sing of it, borne on The shoulders of joyous men, to feel the heart That is the common, the bravest fundament, This is a facile exercise. View quote
Wallace Stevens