Bravery Quotes - Page 19

• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Powerful, Adversity

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

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• The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

  Margaret Atwood

  Courage, Thinking, Fearless

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

  Diane Sawyer

  Brave, Literature, Knows

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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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• It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

  Amanda Holden

  Men, Brave, Brave Man

  Amanda Holden (2013). “No Holding Back”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Artist, People, Culture

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

  Tacitus

  Courage, Fear, Despair

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• Bravery is good when the cause is good.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Causes

  Bernhard Schlink (2008). “Homecoming: A Novel”, p.109, Vintage

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• I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

  Bear Grylls

  People, Gone, Life Is

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• I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

  Veronica Roth

  Training, Different, Firsts

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• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Cat, Pet, Ears

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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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• I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

  Elton John

  Queens, Character, People

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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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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• 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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• Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

  Eric Sevareid

  Principles, Fur, Next

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• I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do

  Bruce Catton

  Men, Thinking, Sides

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

  Mason Cooley

  Courage, Victory, Defeat

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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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• 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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• I'm not brave at all.

  Matt Nagle

  Brave

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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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• 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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