Bravery Quotes - Page 5

• The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Giving Up, Essence, Shambhala

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Men, Order

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• The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

  Pliny the Elder

  Courage, Men, Class

  "The Natural History of Pliny".

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• Lots of people misunderstand this. They think not experiencing fear means they're courageous. Bravery isn't about not being afraid, it's about persevering despite your fears.

  Kim Du-han

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

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• Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Courage, Fear

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• Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Differences, Knowing

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• He who is brave is free.

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Reality, Liberty

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

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• Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Brave, Despair

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.238, Penguin

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• Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Shapes

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• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful, Spring, Rain

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• Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Consistency

  USA Today, March 5, 1988.

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• Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

  Jewel

  Life, Inspiration, Uncommon

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• I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

  Richard Gere

  Emotional, Thinking, Skins

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• You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Happiness, Meaningful

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• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Courage, Men, Independence

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• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

  Aesop

  Courage, Distance, Army

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Peace, Excellence

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Memorial Day

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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• The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Men, Order

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• It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

  A. A. Milne

  Courage, Animal, Piglet

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• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Princess, Adversity

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Courage, Thoughtful, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2136, Delphi Classics

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• Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Army, Be Brave

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.327, Penguin

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• History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

  Edmund Morris

  Wise, Brave, Admire

  Edmund Morris (2011). “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Modern Library

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