Be Brave Quotes - Page 4

• [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Meaningful, Courage, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.126

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• No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
  [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 2, 44 B.C..

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• Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Fear, Bravery

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Believe, Fighting

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2014

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• Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

  Brad Henry

  Bravery, Brave, Together

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• The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

  Robert Anthony

  Courage, Opposites, Bravery

  Robert Anthony (1986). “The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence”, p.26, Penguin

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• Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Positive, Courage, Fear

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• Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Courage, Bravery, Heroic

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• Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Heartbroken, Courage, Carpe Diem

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• Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

  Chris Bradford

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

  Thucydides

  Strength, Peace, Military

  Thucydides (1979). “The Speeches of Pericles”, Burns & Oates

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• A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Happiness, Meaningful

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

  Aesop

  Courage, Distance, Army

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Positive, Freedom

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• Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

  George S. Patton

  Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Brave Person, Bravery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

  Homer

  Country, Men, Bravery

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.669, Delphi Classics

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