Brave Quotes

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.
Nelson Mandela

Courage, Fear, Learned

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Love, Strength, Business

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Coward, Incapable

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Hope, Home

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Joy, Learn, Patient

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Love, Strength, Business

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho

Experience, Nothing, Risks

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Strong, Humble, Enough

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens

True, Someone, Person

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Enough, Die

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hero, Longer, Five

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

Beautiful, Waiting, Once

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle

Become, Moral, Result

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle

Become, Action, Actions

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine

Strength, Real, Reflection

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

Courage, Others, Often

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

Him, Afraid, Coward

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

Whole, Pretend, Beat

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball

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

Death, Coward, Behind

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

Faith, Business, Forward

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.
George S. Patton

Men, Fear, Bravery

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

History, Future, Wise

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun Tzu

Men, Wise, Stupid

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Love, Men

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Give, Year, Week

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

Men, War, Adversity

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Love, Fortune, Favor

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.
Terry Pratchett

Alone, Old, Makes

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