Brave Quotes - Page 39

• The brave are parsimonious of threats.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Bravery, Threat

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• Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

  Thomas Browne

  Suicide, Jobs, Taught Us

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.112

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• And still I look for the men who will dare to be
  roses of England
  wild roses of England
  men who are wild roses of England
  with metal thorns, beware!
  but still more brave and still more rare
  the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world
  fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies
  rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools
  and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Clever, Lying, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Weak Man, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8467, Delphi Classics

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• Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Color

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• The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Fighting, Blow

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• Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Soldier, Turkish

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• The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

  Marion Barry

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Bravery, Example

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.128

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• I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.

  Henry IV of France

  Religion

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• O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
  The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
  And all the good embrace, who know the grave
  A short dark passage to eternal light.

  William Davenant

  Death, Wise, Dark

  William Davenant, “Frail Life! In Which, Through Mists Of Human Breath”

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• To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

  John Wilmot

  Kindness, Greatness, Men

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.61, Taylor & Francis

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• Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

  John Smith

  Kings, Soldier, Spain

  "Advertisements for the Unexperienced, etc." by Captain John Smith, Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, Third Series, Volume III, p. 49,

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• Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

  Yamada Koun

  Passion, Practice, Enemy

  Koun Yamada (2005). “The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.758, Library of Alexandria

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• Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Trying, Comfort, Groups

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.162, Hamilton Books

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• Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

  Publilius Syrus

  Holding Back

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• They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brother, Father, Struggle

  Ronald Reagan (1989). “Speaking my mind: selected speeches”, Simon & Schuster

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• For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, House, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Essays”

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• But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hard Times, Secret, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

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• For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

  Albert Pike

  Wise, Opposites, Slave

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Bravery, Waiting

  "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)

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• The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Bravery, Brave Man

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Men, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.255

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