Brave Quotes

He who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

Mind, Powerful, Adversity

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Julius Caesar

Unexpected, Disturbed

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Work, God, Evil

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

Coward, Indian, Respects

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Liberty, Old, Makes

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.
Hillary Clinton

War, Courage, Fighting

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Happiness, Person

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

Men, Middle, Toughness

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.
Douglas MacArthur

Struggle, Against, Conscience

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Tim Pawlenty

Women, Men, History

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Live, Fortune

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

Hardship, Cowards, Endure

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Women, Wise, Wife

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
James A. Garfield

Him, Tell, Face

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

Born, Greedy, Remain

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
Euripides

Sunshine, Eyes, Danger

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

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne

Human, May, Cannot

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Alan Alda

Life, Live, Enough

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis

Home, Long, Free

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

Enough, Try, Whole

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

Life, Courage, Live

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne

Nature, Forgive, Coward

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.
Lena Dunham

Time, Strong, Tough

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.
Nicole Kidman

Love, Trust, Else

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Woodrow Wilson

Men, Challenge, Overcome

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great

Courage, Soul, Disaster

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Howard Cosell

Life, Morning, Courage

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