Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Elkeles

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

Thucydides

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

Robert A. Heinlein

I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.

Tim O'Brien

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

Neil Postman

For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

Sharon Osbourne

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

Shirley Henderson

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

Richard Attenborough

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

Richard Armitage

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

K. D. Lang

Even through the darkest phase Be it thick or thin Always someone marches brave Here beneath my skin

Julius Charles Hare

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

Susan Glaspell

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Stuart Wilde

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

Stephen Fry

One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

Sonya Hartnett

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

Ruth Benedict

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

Tania Raymonde

You have to be brave and good things will come to you. I

Swami Vivekananda

Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!

Rupert Everett

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

Rumi

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.

Susanna Clarke

But, though French, she was also very brave...

Suzanne Collins

Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

Stephen King

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Veronica Roth

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

Veronica Roth

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Veronica Roth

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Veronica Roth

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.

Veronica Roth

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

Robert Frost

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

Robert Frost

Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

Robert Harris

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Vance Havner

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Rick Riordan

Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?