Brave Man Quotes - Page 6

• Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

  A. B. Simpson

  Hurt, Men, Brave

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, Brave, Forever

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• If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

  John Shaw Billings

  Men, Brave, Looks

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• My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.

  Lawrence Block

  Mother, Easter, Father

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Out On The Cutting Edge”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Rest In Peace, Recovery, Sacrifice

  "What If Apollo 11 Failed? President Nixon Had Speech Ready" by Nola Taylor Redd, www.space.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Men, White, Brave

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

  Aristotle

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.54

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• Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Brave, Capes

  Herman Melville (2015). “White Jacket, the World on a Man-of-War: Works of Melville”, p.85, 谷月社

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• As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Fire, Brave

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.

  Thomas Traherne

  Heart, Greatness, Men

  "The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D". Book edited by Bertram Dobell, London: Bertram Dobell, p. LVII, "Christian Ethicks" (1675), 1903.

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• The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.

  Polybius

  Country, Memories, Men

  Polybius, Friedrich Hultsch (1889). “The Histories”

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• Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Live Life, Men, Self

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• Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Religious, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1902, Manonmani Publishers

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• For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Girl, Men, Brave

  "Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, III. 19, October 1797.

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• But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Men, Long

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.

  George S. Patton

  War, Home, Army

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

  Milt Gross

  Liars, Golf, Men

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• While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Grateful, Past

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1863-1864”

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• It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

  Joseph Stalin

  Fear, Army, Men

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• Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Brave, Admiration

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1337, Bantam

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• To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

  Aristotle

  Sad, Suicide, Pain

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• Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Men, Sight

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• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful, Spring, Rain

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• A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

  Confucius

  Men, Bravery, Good Man

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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