Bravery Quotes

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

Martin Luther

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Billy Joel

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Soren Kierkegaard

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Earl Wilson

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Johann von Goethe

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann von Goethe

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

David Summers

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

G. K. Chesterton

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

G. W. F. Hegel

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

James Thomson

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Richard L. Evans