It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.
In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And that should be expected. For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.
What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.
Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.
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.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
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.
Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat. , Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant. ]
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.