Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.
Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
You can't test courage cautiously.
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
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.
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?'
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.
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
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.
Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?
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.
Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.
Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.