Quotes about Bravery
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
- Euripides
Mars hates those who delay; but if you fear the weight of arms, now then go forth unarmed
- Euripides
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
He used to think that he wanted to be goos, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
- Paul Tillich
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have learned that I am terrified of everything, but I can get the job done.
- Emily Atack
Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.
- Isabel Allende
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
- John Oliver
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
- Ronald Reagan