Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan is the type of person who worries about people worrying about him. He's just been so unbelievably brave and positive throughout the whole situation.

William White

Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase: 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' Well - look at Jeannette Rankin, ... Probably a hundred men in Congress would have liked to do what she did. Not one of them had the courage to do it. The Gazette entirely disagrees with the wisdom of her position. But, Lord, it was a brave thing!

Howard Cosell

Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

As I look at my nation, I am generally impressed by the physical courage of its citizenry but distressed by the lack of intellectual or moral courage. I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage. Yet if my nation is to go down the tubes, I suspect it will be more because of a deficit in its intellectual bravery.

Phil Collins

They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities

Chipper Jones

A lot of hard work has gone into building these fields. You guys enjoy it. Make as much use as you can out of it, and maybe one day we'll see you in a Braves uniform.

A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man.

Kyle Davis

They have a great pitching staff here, but I plan to be with the Braves for a long time. I want to make a good impression and see how it goes.

It's kind of brave to get started before you know you're going to finish.

It seems they are shuffling their feet when they should be running away from what Pat Robertson said. That this president, who projects himself as brave and bold, doesn't want to stand up to his own right wing is ironic.

Strobe Talbott

It's a tough call for the president. It's a brave and correct decision on his part and not without risks.

Hans Christian Andersen

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

. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.

Jeremy Brett

Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

Ernest Hemingway

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Erin Hunter

Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw...

Jeaniene Frost

Brave words in a room full of pulseless creatures. Spade gave Don a disgusted glance while Rodney just licked his lips. No doubt he was mentally salting and peppering Don.

Jacqueline Wilson

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

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.

George R. R. Martin

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

Gail Tsukiyama

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

Euripides

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Francis of Assisi

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

Gregory David Roberts

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Hugh Sidey

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

Howard Kurtz

It's a brave new world.

Guy Gavriel Kay

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

Scott Tucker

He's very patient. I wouldn't have enough patience to sit here all the time and do that and the bravery, it being open, everybody seeing him sitting here, seeing him do it.

He throws hard, but I saw where he's not throwing as hard and hitting more spots. That will make it more fun, I guess. He's pitching for the Braves in the playoffs, so he's obviously got some talent.

Roger Ebert

Gene was a lifelong friend and our professional competition only strengthened that bond, ... He showed great bravery in the months after his surgery, continuing to work as long as he could.