Bravery Quotes

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Love, Trust, Power

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, Brave

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo

Curiosity, Feminine, Forms

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton

Nature, Human, Liberty

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, Brave

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. Rowling

Great, Friends, Stand

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

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
Nick Lampson

Patriotism, Past, Veterans

Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar N. Bradley

Death, Scared, Half

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Robert Anthony

Cowardice, Conformity, Opposite

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
Lady Gaga

Age, Courage, Young

Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.
Susan Orlean

Life, Fake, Real

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
Dave Matthews

Hope, Beautiful, Kindness

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men, Courage, Opinion

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips

Courage, Moral, Animal

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard Thompson

Alone, Guitar, Stand

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Xun Zi

Strength, Food, Death

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust

Battle, Risk, Run

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Philip Sidney

True, Beginning, Danger

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
Xun Zi

Stay, Guidance, Daring

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens

Fear, Conquer, Curiosity

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck

Power, Strength, Fool

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White

Live, Sense, Grace

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
Dick Cheney

Women, Men, Courage

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
Richard Gere

Emotional, Show, Skin

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.
El Cordobes

Yourself, Believing, Nobody

It takes bravery to end a relationship.
Leona Lewis

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.
John Boehner

Government, Sacrifice, Give

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