Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Frank Baum

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

Lucille Ball

I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.

Mark Messier

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

Mary MacLane

I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.

Mark Twain

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

Ovid

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Ovid

God himself favors the brave.

Paul Neilan

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

Hans Christian Andersen

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

George Washington

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

George Washington

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

George Washington

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

Jose Marti

My poems please the brave : My poems, short and sincere , Have the force of steel Which forges swords .

Kenneth Grahame

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

You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears.

Robert Chapman

The IT industry itself needs to be braver about cross-training people,

Mahatma Gandhi

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Ellen Page

I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.

Barbara Bush

All the brave men and women we recognize today brought credit to the uniform and honor to the United States of America,

Helen Fielding

I am brave, though I am alone.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

O. Henry

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Marie Lu

Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

Theodore White

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

The guys had to be brave and it's shown them what can actually be achieved. We'll probably never recapture that moment but the fear of failure went out the window on Sunday for our batters.

Eric Sevareid

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."