Brave Quotes

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

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.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

I'm not brave at all.

To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

He who is brave is free.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

Fortune favors the brave.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.

The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

In my everyday life I'm a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I'm doing something right.

It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their 'brave' stance on short-selling!

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

I don't know if I'm brave.

A brave mind is always impregnable.

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

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.