Bravery Quotes

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

William T. Sherman

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Earlene Larson Jenks

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette

Necessity does the work of courage.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Cervantes

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

G. C. Lichtenberg

As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

Napoléon Bonaparte

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

Cervantes

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

Courage - fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Many become brave when brought to bay.

Norwegian proverb

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage both as a whole and separately in each country in each government in each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'

Michel de Montaigne

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

G.K. Chesterton

Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Victoria

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

Jan Wong

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

o.henry

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)

Motto of Scotland

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

Anonymous

Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest!

Anonymous

Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

La Rochefoucauld

None but the brave deserves the fair.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

To cultivate bravery and courage, start small. Taking small, consistent steps for calculated risks will help you test your footing. Once you begin enjoying mini-victories, you will be able to build upon your small successes to escalate momentum and strengthen your courage to take bigger ones.

To cultivate bravery and courage, build upon your strengths and talents. What are you good at? What makes you feel confident and personally powerful? Your competencies will ground you and build your strength.

To cultivate bravery and courage, try something new for the first time. Take a chance. Stretch beyond your familiar limits by taking risks that move you out of your old mindset and into a new perspective. Once accomplished, trying something new bolsters your confidence and boosts your ability to be brave.

When it comes to meeting new people, playing well with others, and connecting on deeper levels, there are inherent gaps which can be closed only by being brave. When is bravery needed?

It’s not bravery unless you are doing something which causes you to feel afraid. Unless there is some degree of fear or apprehension involved, bravery is not even needed.

Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone.

Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid—none of which are comfortable.

If being brave were easy, more people would be.

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