Bravery Quotes

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossner

Discretion is the better part of valour.origin: Falstaff: 'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.'

William Shakespeare, Henry IV, P

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

Pema Chodron, The Places That Sc

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Ronald Reagan

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

B. C. Forbes

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Leo Rosten

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest fractionally more brave, one might say about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to atoms between the upper and nether millstones of Hitlerism and Stalinism. One of the most objective chroniclers is Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University. In his view, it is still 'Operation Reinhardt,' or the planned destruction of Polish Jewry, that is to be considered as the centerpiece of what we commonly call the Holocaust, in which of the estimated 5.7 million Jewish dead, 'roughly three million were prewar Polish citizens.' We should not at all allow ourselves to forget the millions of non-Jewish citizens of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and other Slav territories who were also massacred. But for me the salient fact remains that anti-Semitism was the regnant, essential, organizing principle of all the other National Socialist race theories. It is thus not to be thought of as just one prejudice among many.

Christopher Hitchens

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Freda Adler

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage brother, do not stumble,

Norman Macleod

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Robert Cody

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

C.S. Lewis

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Eileen Caddy

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.

William Joseph Slim

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

William Shakespeare