Brave Quotes

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides

War, Happy, Free

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell

Weak, Fortune, Staff

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore

Courage, Pain, Mistakes

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Carter G. Woodson

Men, Help, Find

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage, Desperate, Cowardice

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson

Country, Coward, Worth

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Homer

Country, Cause, Sign

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Courage, Opinion, Another

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
Jasmine Guy

Care, Gay, Enough

Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust

Makes, Necessity, Timid

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop

Easy, Distance, Safe

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
Newt Gingrich

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
Lane Evans

Live, Around, Nation

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Elizabeth I

God, Soldiers, Frightened

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay

Love, Cruel, Cowards

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.
Mark Dayton

Health, Women, Men

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
Arthur Erickson

Insecurity, Everything, America

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.
Susan Orlean

Smart, Through, Perfect

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.
Rupert Everett

Person, Enough, Special

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
Muhammad Iqbal

Long, Two, Moment

Never was a miser a brave soul.
George Herbert

'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.
Susan Orlean

Words, Thought, Light

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
Jesse Ventura

Home, Freedom, Give

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust

Nature, Human, May

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
Walter Knott

Home, Lost, Find

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
Elizabeth Edwards

Run, Building, Burning

Brave men are brave from the very first.
Pierre Corneille

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
Charles Mackay

Work, Done, Made

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Christopher Marlowe

Through, King, Triumph

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
Oscar Hammerstein II

Young, Star, Lovers

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