Bravery Quotes - Page 17

• No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

  Abby Wambach

  Team, Creativity, Goal

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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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• Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Quality, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.69, Rajpal & Sons

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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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• Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Fighting, Men, Relief

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• I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

  Garth Nix

  Cost, Known, Ifs

  Garth Nix (2009). “Abhorsen”, p.300, Zondervan

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• You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  People, Want, Vinyl

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• Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moving, Matter, Difficult

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Panic”, p.268, Hachette UK

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• Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

  Astro Teller

  Innovation, Borders, Leap

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• I don't know if I'm brave.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Brave, Knows, Ifs

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 21, 2012.

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• For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

  Marty Meehan

  Country, Home, Winning

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• If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

  Courtney Milan

  Done, Ifs

  Courtney Milan (2014). “The Turner Series (An Enhanced Box Set)”, p.250, Macmillan

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• We don't have to believe the story of our lives we've been told. You're not the same person you were when you first had sex and not the same as you'll be five years down the line. All redefining yourself requires is the bravery to be fearless, and let go of the judgments.

  Laura Berman

  Letting Go, Sex, Believe

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• The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

  Townsend Harris

  Art, War, People

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• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sight, Evil

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

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• We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

  M. L. Stedman

  Mistake, Decision, Standing

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• It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Trying, Village, Steps

  Gail Tsukiyama (2008). “The Samurai's Garden: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Excess, Temperance

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.218, Hackett Publishing

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• Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Definitions, Being Afraid

  "Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior".

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• The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

  Matt Haig

  Madness, Acts Of Bravery, Can Do

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Stars, Young Love, Lovers

  Song: Hello, Young Lovers

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• Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Heart, Arrogance

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.102

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• Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  War, Doe, Problem

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

  Havelock Ellis

  Courage, Danger In Life, Risk

  "On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue".

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• Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.

  Gautama Buddha

  Leadership, Courage, Struggle

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