Brave Quotes - Page 23

• Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Life, Courage, Men

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Men, Dying

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• The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

  William James

  Fear, Cheerful, Use

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

  John Mason Brown

  Happiness, Disappointment, Heart

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• I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Boys, Games, History

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems - you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself - and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.

  Derrick Jensen

  Mother, Hope, Giving Up

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, 2011.

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• The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Yield, Intelligence

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.42

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• So that my life be brave, what though not long?

  William Drummond

  Life, Long, Long Life

  William Drummond (1856). “The poetical works ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.17

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• In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,
  Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
  From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
  And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.39

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• When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;
  The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
  Sink in the soft captivity together.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Wise, Strong

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.427

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• Love costs all we are
  and will ever be.
  Yet it is only love
  which sets us free.
  A Brave and Startling Truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Cost

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• Oh when I was in love with you,
  Then I was clean and brave,
  And miles around the wonder grew
  How well did I behave.
  And now the fancy passes by,
  And nothing will remain,
  And miles around they'll say that
  I Am quite myself again.

  A. E. Housman

  Life, Love You, Fancy

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 18

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• We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

  Linda Chavez

  Peace, Brave New World, Price Tag

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• In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

  Herbert Read

  Peace, Ubuntu, Water

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• I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

  Phil Donahue

  Peace, Pacifist

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• Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Peace, Men

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. 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.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• Once more on my adventure brave and new.

  Robert Browning

  Travel, Adventure

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Lying

  1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Honesty

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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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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• True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Memorial Day

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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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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• I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

  Gloria Steinem

  Courage, Moving, Vulnerable

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

  John Dickinson

  4th Of July, Fall, Patriotic

  "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

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