Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Katherine Dunn

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

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

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
Jim Gerlach

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

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

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
Susan Davis

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
Charles Godfrey Leland

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay

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

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
Ernst Moritz Arndt

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
Marion Berry

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
George Sewell

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
Philip Emeagwali

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

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

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
Townsend Harris

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