Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Franz Beckenbauer

The Dutch are braver and more creative players, but less disciplined. They want to let the opponent see and feel that they're better, but they forget to score and settle the game.

Dick Cheney

The men and women who serve today can know that they have the complete confidence of the commander-in-chief, and the respect of the entire nation, ... They know, too, that they follow a long and unbroken line of brave Americans who came to the defense of freedom.

Terry Pratchett

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

Terry Eagleton

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Simone Elkeles

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

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.

Voltaire

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Virginia Woolf

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

William James

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Sara Bareilles

Show me how big your brave is.

Winston Churchill

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.