Bravery Quotes - Page 27

• Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Pain, Sacrifice, Self

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• She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

  Lorrie Moore

  Opportunity

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• Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

  Marilyn Manson

  Life, Fear, Faces

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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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• Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Men, West Berlin

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.534, Best Books on

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• During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

  Melissa Bean

  Travel, Fall, Air

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• Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Work, Heart

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• We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.

  Frank Skinner

  Courage, Risk, Hearing

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• You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this - It's not about not being scared - it's about being scared and doing it anyway - that's bravery.

  Ysabella Brave

  Military, Brave, Choices

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Everyday Bravery", www.youtube.com. March 25, 2007.

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• Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Doubt

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.84, Penguin Books India

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• True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Solitude, World

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• Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  People, Triumph, Want

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• You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Brave, Sake

  The Golden Age (1895) "The Burglars"

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• One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.

  Tipu Sultan

  Years, One Day, Lions

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• There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Mind, Hard

  William Shakespeare, Warne Routledge (and Routledge (Londres)), William Hazlitt (1864). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes”, p.149

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• When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.

  Andrew Roberts

  War, Islands, Israel

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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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• We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.

  Julius Streicher

  Men, Years, Jail

  "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.

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• Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

  L. Neil Smith

  Reality, Media, Space

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

  Ross Kemp

  Writing, Young Generation, People

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• I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Girl, Hero, Opposites

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.158

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• I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Courage, Military, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1865). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.96

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