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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.
Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.
He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.
you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?
When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.
Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.
For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.
The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.
The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.
I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.
Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!
If you don't stand up to your fears, have bravery, loyalty, and you don't have friends, you'll never win. You'll never feel better about yourself.
The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.