Brave Quotes

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

A brave man who climbs trees is food for their roots.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man.

The essence of teaching, the soul of the art, is being brave enough, psychologically unencumbered enough, to see exactly what is taking place in the minds of your students at any given moment and then--like a good psychotherapist--speak to and through their defenses to uncover the true promise of the lesson, its hidden meaning. This significance will almost always be different from what you originally took it to be and at odds with the lesson plan. But that is what makes teaching a creative act. One doesn't just dispense information--one brings insight into being. I am surprised by what I "teach" all the time.

Foster children are brave little children.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

May God bless America , the land of the free, the home of the brave and the greatest country on the face of this earth!

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is The long nights of the grave.

Democracy is always on the shoulders of brave people.

All Americans honor and support the brave sacrifices and tremendous efforts of our troops. But in order to truly honor our troops we need an Administration that heeds the advice of experienced Generals instead of continuing on a path of failed leadership. Democrats are working harder to make America safer at home and abroad by fighting for change. Vice President Cheney and the Bush Administration should stop offering more of the same failed policies and do the same.

Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring sense / And Heaven views it with delight.