If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike

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

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

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.
Tom Wilkinson

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

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
Charles Schumer

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
John L. Phillips

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

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

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
Georges Duhamel

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

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

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges Bernanos

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

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
Louise Brown

It's a brave new world.
Howard Kurtz

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

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
Dave Grohl

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