Quotes about Bravery

Fear is the original sin, wrote John Foster. Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.

When people ask me that absurd question Do you like children? I always feel like retorting - and sometimes do, if I think the questioner has brains enough to understand the retort - Why don't you ask me if I like grown-up people? I like some very much, detest others, and am indifferent to the vast majority.

faint heart never won fair lady as the Good Book says.

For our tomorrow they gave their today' — theirs is the victory!

Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle than had ever been fought in the world; but that was as yet far in the future; and the mother, whose first-born son he was, was wont to look on her boys and thank God that the brave days of old

Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that

Sometimes we smile at a child who's afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.