Quotes about Bravery
I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.
- Edmund Hillary
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
- Cicero
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
- CS Lewis
What's dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.
- Marianne Williamson
What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
- Mark Batterson
As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I've learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.
- Mark Batterson
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
Rash men wish for dangers beforehand but draw back when they are in them. Brave men are excited at the moment of action, but collected beforehand.
- Aristotle
He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.
- Arthur C. Clarke
it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
- Erica Jong
Care sat on his faded cheek, but under brows of dauntless courage.
- John Milton