Bravery Quotes

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

William Hazlitt

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

John Stuart Mill

There must be a reason why people hesitate; uncertainty is one, no courage another.

Ron De Jonge

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Source Unknown

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James Freeman Clarke

There's no substitute for guts.

Paul William "Bear" Bryant

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Joseph Conrad

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sir Philip Sidney

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Tacitus

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes

Screw your courage to the sticking-place

William Shakespeare

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Willie Shoemaker