Brave Quotes - page 3

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. (William Butler Yeats)
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot. View quote
Mark Twain
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! View quote
William Collins
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. View quote
Edward Abbey
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted it belongs to the brave. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Be brave enough to be yourself. View quote
Jennifer Morrison
We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances. View quote
Rachel Corrie
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? View quote
Curt Weldon
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. View quote
Mary Wesley
My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords. View quote
José Martí
Listen, son-most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better-and the vile ones are viler. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. View quote
Thomas Paine
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different. (Paulo Coelho)
I wish I was dead, And lay deep in the grave. I've a pain in my head, I wish I was dead. In a coffin of lead- With the Wise and the Brave- I wish I was dead, And lay deep in the grave. View quote
Maurice Baring
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue. View quote
Susan Sontag
When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that. View quote
Mike Huckabee
It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection. View quote
Robert Jordan