Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Muhammad Ali

We can't be brave without fear.

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.

Nathan Parsons

Be brave enough to create.

Publilius Syrus

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

Olivier Martinez

Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Kenny Loggins

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Kathryn Lasky

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)

Learned Hand

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Lajos Kossuth

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

Lajos Kossuth

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

L. Frank Baum

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

Isak Dinesen

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

Giordano Bruno

I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

Natalia Kills

I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

Kate DiCamillo

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

Karen Thompson Walker

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

Julian Barnes

Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And since as a professional writer you are full of anxiety anyway, you could easily misread the signs.

Tim Ryan

As we remember our nation's bravest, let us live up to the ideals for which they fought and died, that we may be not just the beneficiaries of their bravery but stewards of their sacrifice.

A brave man who climbs trees is food for their roots

Michelle Moran

I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.

Seth Godin

It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

Seth Godin

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us.

Neil Gaiman

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

Neil Gaiman

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.

Neil Gaiman

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

Neil Gaiman

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

John Steinbeck

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

Meg Cabot

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

Philip Sidney

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.