Be Brave Quotes

• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Faith, Courage, Father

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

  Dorothy Bernard

  Inspiring, Courage, Fear

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  Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Courage, Time

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• 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

  Fear, War, Intelligent

  "An Owner's Manual for Men: What You Need to Know Before You Venture out There". Book by Joe Nickaloff (p. 96),

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• The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Courage, Bravery

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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

  Philip Sidney

  Courage, Knights, Bravery

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.72

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• Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memorial Day, Men, Remembrance

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• The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Men, Order

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• Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

  Alan Alda

  Life, Creativity, Creative

  Alan Alda (2009). “Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself”, p.21, Random House

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• Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

  Joyce Meyer

  Courage, Fear, Prayer

  Joyce Meyer (2009). “I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion”, p.115, Hachette UK

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

  Wendell Phillips

  Animal, Bravery, Accountability

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• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Being Strong, Confidence, Courage

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

  John Gay

  Love, Bravery, Coward

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.20

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• 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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Courage

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (1997)

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• Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Husband

  "The Canterbury tales: translated into modern English prose".

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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