Bravery Quotes - Page 23

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Brave Man, Knows

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

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• Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Summit, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.93, A&C Black

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• I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial.

  David Oyelowo

  Drama, School, Opportunity

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• Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I'd like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren't anybody to be looked up to. They're somebody to look down at because they couldn't defend themselves or couldn't protect others without using a gun.

  David Hemenway

  Real, Men, Gun

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• When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself.

  Adolf Hitler

  Strong, Struggle, Heart

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• Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.

  Jacques Roumain

  Heart, Men, Giving

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• Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Presence Of Mind, People

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• The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Men, Vanity

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• We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, Principles

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• Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Simple, Soldier, Danger

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• The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Giving

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• We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Eye, Office

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• In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sacrifice, Years, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Grief, Remembrance

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

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• Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sadness, Men, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Men, Tradition

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

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• With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Gay, Feminist, Lucky

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• A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

  Confucius

  Men, Good Man, Brave Man

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

  Philip Green

  Intelligent, Views, Decision

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• Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

  Seth Godin

  Generosity, Fans, Demand

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.34, Penguin

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• I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.

  Novak Djokovic

  Believe, Fall, Thinking

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• Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

  Pema Chodron

  Self, Essence, Understanding

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• The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.14, GENERAL PRESS

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• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Brave, Grace

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• Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Greed, Wish

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