Bravery Quotes

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

Elmer Davis

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

Omar Bradley

"Bravery never goes out of fashion."

William Makepeace Thackeray

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

Cicero

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it."

Thucydides

"Fortune favors the brave."

Terence

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

G. K. Chesterton

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

Seneca

"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

Veronica Roth

"The brave alone can afford to be sincere."

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."

"We become brave by doing brave acts."

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do."

Brené Brown

"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."

Seneca

“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.”

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."

Thucydides

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

“The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.”

Aesop

“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.”

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”

Ovid

“It is not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

Harper Lee

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”