Bravery Quotes - Page 26

• Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Numbers, India

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• The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violent, Superiors, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Impossible, Stills

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.161, Tara Publishing

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• Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Useless, Speech, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brave, Driving, Brutes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works: (1918:Aug.-1919:Jul.)”

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• For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cowardice, Unworthy, Nationalism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Sacrifice, Fire

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

  Kanye West

  Pain, Knowing, Sides

  "Kanye West: In His Own Words" by Gabby Bess, www.papermag.com. April 20, 2015.

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• A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Knowing

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• Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Coward, Emasculation

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.

  Colin Farrell

  Mean, Reality, Government

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Secret, Grain

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• Fortune helps the brave.

  Terence

  Courage, Helping, Fortune

  Terence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Terence (Illustrated)”, p.266, Delphi Classics

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• The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

  Robert Anthony

  Courage, Opposites, Political

  Robert Anthony (1986). “The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence”, p.26, Penguin

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• The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

  Thomas Campbell

  Munich, Chivalry, Wave

  Thomas Campbell (1822). “Poetical Works”, p.161

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• The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

  Michael Howard

  Hands, Important, Witness

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• While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery. Through the collective, heroic efforts of countless men and women, victory was claimed over tyranny and evil.

  Sam Kutesa

  War, Men, Evil

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• Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Men, Gnats

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.98, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• I love the focus and bravery of European designers, but I love the nonchalance and throwaway aspect of America that has made Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein two of the greatest icons. I try to bridge those two worlds in my work. The clothes may be couture on the runway but there's an attitude that's very street and that comes from America.

  Vera Wang

  Attitude, Focus, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

  Susan Orlean

  Real, School, Names

  "@leapofFaith" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 22, 2011.

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• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  Danica Patrick

  Car, Brave, Matter

  "Texas: Post race press conference - Patrick, Andretti". Firestone 550K Post-Race Transcript, www.motorsport.com. June 5, 2010.

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• Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery.

  Dave Eggers

  Fun, War, Simple

  Dave Eggers (2009). “The Wild Things”, p.208, Vintage

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• I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.

  David Levithan

  Strong, Thinking, Feelings

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.156, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Country, Men

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Example, Generations

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.128

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