Bravery Quotes - Page 18

• Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

  Marc Marcel

  Often Is, Stupidity, Mistaken

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• How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

  Curt Weldon

  Veterans Day, Truth, Ethos

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• People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  Tim Wise

  Strong, Hurt, Commitment

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• If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, War, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.178, Xist Publishing

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• The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
  Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
  So to the brave man every land's a home.

  Ovid

  Lying, Home, Blow

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• Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

  Mason Cooley

  Courage, Victory, Defeat

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• One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Thinking, Giving, Enemy

  "The Book of Military Quotations" by Peter G. Tsouras, (p. 55), 1998.

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• One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

  Brandy Norwood

  Dream, Children, Real

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• I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Thinking, Play, Victim

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• The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Spiritual, Courage, Ocean

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• You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

  Mary Daly

  Courage, Feminist, Becoming

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• Fear is part of the process.  If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

  Bruce Jenner

  Motivational, Sports, Scared

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• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  Sallust

  Law, Victory, Coward

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• Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

  Tim Sandlin

  Looks

  Tim Sandlin (2010). “Social Blunders: A Novel”, p.292, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I'm not brave at all.

  Matt Nagle

  Brave

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• Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

  Samuel Richardson

  Depressing, Lying, Pride

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• What is genius or courage without a heart?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Leadership, Courage, Heart

  Oliver Goldsmith (1803). “The Beauties of Goldsmith, Or, The Complete Treasury of Genius: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.106

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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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• You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

  Joe Namath (1987). “Football for Young Players and Parents”, Fireside

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• Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Cowardice, Bravado

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• In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

  John L. Phillips

  Mean, Space, People

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• Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

  John R. Erickson

  Cat, Rewards, Trouble

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• We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  World, May, Way

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Fire, Water

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Artist, Mind, Sometimes

  "Alexander Skarsgård: Interview with a vampire". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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