Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

We must do our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

He was too brave for his own good,

He's confident he will still be playing at a high level then. The Braves made a good effort and the Cubs did too. He turned down longer terms from other teams. We probably could have gotten close to this much money and twice as many years. But this was the right thing and the right team.

Dan Rather

He had the looks of a leading man, ... He was a scholar and correspondent and he had the bravery of a knight.

He is a brave man ... very shrewd, an excellent tactician ... smart, knowledgeable, experienced.

Sidney Lumet

There is a kind of crazy bravery about this guy.

Blaise Pascal

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

Ayn Rand

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

Christiane Amanpour

No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, ... He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.

One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just made the brave move from another country, with perhaps little education or with a lot of education and degrees crossing over from another industry, all of these folks have opportunities in tourism. Young or old, part time or full time, it needs everyone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Safra A. Catz

My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

She is very strong and has been so brave through this entire thing. She's a little peanut and has a take-charge, run-the-show type personality. She's being strong for everyone around her.

Donald Trump

She is very proud to have won, and now she is in a very tough position. She is extremely brave.

Brandon Marshall

As far as police go, if officers are really that scared or timid [on the streets], maybe they shouldn't be police officers. Their job is to protect and serve and they're supposed to be the bravest of the brave.

John Schuerholz

This winter we have set our sights on going back to sort of the old-fashioned Braves way of building championship teams with dominant pitching. That's what we think we have done and we are excited about the pitching staff we have put together for the season.

Jewel

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your stregth to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery and you shall live a life oncommon.

Lord, we pray that you use Christian's life in a very powerful and brave way like you did his father, David,

Dick Cheney

Many brave Americans have laid down their lives so that liberty could triumph, ... Tomorrow, like today, the most import ingredient for the Army's success will be the soldiers who take the risks and make the sacrifices and win our wars.

Steve Jones

Senator Thompson will host his first program this Memorial Day, focusing on America's brave servicemen and women.

Katha Pollitt

She's very brave the way she tackles this in the book. She's been given a lot of flak from the right, saying, 'Who'd want you?' But she does deal well with the imperfect fit between men and women. If she was a man, she'd have a ton of people throwing themselves at her.

Diane Johnson

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

Diane Sawyer

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

Denis Johnson

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

Edgar Allan Poe

No one should brave the underworld alone.

Eleanor Porter

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

Ehud Barak

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Aristotle

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

Theodore Parker

Let us do our duty in our shop or kitchen; in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and

W. S. Gilbert

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,