Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lajos Kossuth

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

L. Frank Baum

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

Theodore White

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Matt Nagle

I'm not brave at all.

Mark Messier

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

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.

J. K. Rowling

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Mahatma Gandhi

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

. . . 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.

Guy Gavriel Kay

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

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.

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.

Katherine Center

There is no tenderness without bravery.

Stuart Wilde

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

Philip Sidney

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

John H. Johnson

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Gabriela Sabatini

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

Eric Sevareid

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

O. Henry

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Leona Lewis

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

Thucydides

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

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.

Rhianna Pratchett

You can't have bravery without fear

Veronica Roth

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Veronica Roth

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

Veronica Roth

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

Veronica Roth

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.