Brave Quotes - page 2

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)
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. View quote
Ben Jonson
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. View quote
Helen Keller
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. View quote
Mary Tyler Moore
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. View quote
Douglas Adams
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brave men are brave from the very first. View quote
Pierre Corneille
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better than gold. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. View quote
Charles Cooley
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. (Earl Derr Biggers)
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. View quote
Billy Graham
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won. View quote
Charles Godfrey Leland
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self. View quote
Queen Latifah
Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. View quote
Dolly Parton
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. View quote
Georges Duhamel
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. View quote
Aphra Behn
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword. (Oscar Wilde)
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich that one word contradicts everything you can say against him. View quote
Henry Fielding
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. View quote
Nicole Kidman
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. View quote
William Faulkner
A book is like a man clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. View quote
John Steinbeck
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