Bravery Quotes - Page 16

• There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Differences, Stupidity

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• Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

  Garrison Keillor

  Dream, Mistake, Adventure

  Garrison Keillor (2009). “A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Ignorance, Simple

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• Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.

  Nicola Barker

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Pain

  Nicola Barker (2012). “The Yips: A Novel”, p.115, Open Road Media

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• Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

  Hafez

  Soul, Elements, Faces

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• Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Friends, Fire, Safety

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• If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

  Newt Gingrich

  Brave, Ifs

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• Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

  William Faulkner

  Courage, Hurt, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.364, Vintage

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• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Giving Up, Pain

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Time, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

  "De Providentia" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9-10., 1922.

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• What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we
  should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Death, Sweet

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• And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.

  Anneli Rufus

  Ideas, Groups, Example

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• Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

  Joseph Addison

  Courage, Ifs

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• Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

  Mark Pryor

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Community

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• Seeing a patter doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose skills are far beyond your own. When you're new to something-or you haven't tried it in a while-it can feel impossibly hard to get it right. Every misstep feels like a reason to quit. You envy everyone else who seems to know what they're doing. What keeps you going? The belief that one day you'll also be like that: Elegant. Capable. Confident. Experienced. And you can be. All you need now is enthusiasm. A little bravery. And-always-a sense of humor.

  Kate Jacobs

  Baby, Mean, Skills

  Kate Jacobs (2008). “Knit Two”, p.6, Penguin

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• There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

  James M. Barrie

  Dream, Father, Sacrifice

  "Fictional character: Mrs. Darling". "Peter Pan", www.imdb.com. December 9, 2003.

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• I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

  Veronica Roth

  Divergent, Different, Selflessness

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• In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

  Lady Gaga

  Courage, Bullying, Thinking

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• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Journey, Stories

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.540, eBookIt.com

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• Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

  Dave Grohl

  Home, Land, America

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• Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

  Jim Gerlach

  Chains That Bind, Independence, Principles

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• Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lying, Long Ago, Silence

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.440, Canongate Books

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• It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

  Amber Heard

  Amber, Heard

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• But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Night, Two, Long

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1955). “Poems from Iqbal”, London : Murray. [1955]

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