Bravery Quotes - Page 31

• Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

  Cheri Huber

  Inspiration, Tasks, Conquer

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• Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

  John Milton

  Learning, Men, Age

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.277

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• War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, War, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Winning, Be Brave

  Harvey Penick (2011). “And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

  Sophie Turner

  Believe, Stand Up For Yourself, World Affairs

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• True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Perseverance, Courage, Wind

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• Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Humanity, Good Things

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

  Amy Chua

  Courage, Language, Accents

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.

  Taylor Schilling

  Wrinkles, Order, Who We Are

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• You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

  John Cassavetes

  Honesty, Pain, Intuition

  "Opening Night" by Peter Bogdanovich, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2011.

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• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Past

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Inch Kenneth'

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• The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

  Gillian Roberts

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Gillian Roberts (2014). “You Can Write a Mystery”, p.2, Untreed Reads

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• you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.

  Maia Wojciechowska

  Courage, Real, Knowing

  Maia Wojciechowska (2007). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.

  Alissa Nutting

  Territory, Female, Filters

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• The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Integrity, Character

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Honesty, Integrity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.115

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• A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Knowing, Satire, Danger

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

  Jules Verne

  Law, Historical, May

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.211, Jules Verne

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• We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Bravery is not man's monopoly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Monopoly, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.302, Rajpal & Sons

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• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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• You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

  Marcus Garvey

  Mistake, Noise, Lips

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.219, The Majority Press

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