Brave man quotes:

Send

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward. -- Chief Joseph
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. -- Homer
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. -- Billy Graham
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. -- Euripides
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. -- Ernst Moritz Arndt
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. -- Nelson Mandela
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. -- George S. Patton
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. -- Euripides
It is going to take a very brave man to love me. -- Amanda Holden
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. -- St. Catherine of Siena
I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above. -- Andy Weir
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. -- Georges Bernanos
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. -- Sun Tzu
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances. -- Seneca the Younger
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. -- James A. Garfield
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. -- Andrew Jackson
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women. -- Democritus
Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity. -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. -- John Dryden
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword -- Oscar Wilde
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred. -- Meredith Willson
A brave man is seldom unkind. -- Pretty Shield
Brave men are brave from the very first. -- Pierre Corneille
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness. -- Henry David Thoreau
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man. -- J. K. Rowling
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others. -- Veronica Roth
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience. -- Friedrich Schiller
I shall never again admire a merely brave man. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman. -- Albert Einstein
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred. -- James Ellis
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. -- Edward Abbey
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse. -- Plutarch
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery. -- Henry David Thoreau
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man. -- Mark Twain
A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest. -- Khem Veasna
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. -- Henry David Thoreau
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. -- Aristotle
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. -- Joseph Stalin
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward. -- Aristotle
The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.] -- Ovid
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures -- Democritus
It is the brave man's part to live with glory, or with glory die. -- Sophocles
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity. -- Seneca the Younger
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. -- John Dryden
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. -- Sophocles
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. -- Alexander Pope
A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good. -- Confucius
It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. -- Miguel de Cervantes
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. -- Henry David Thoreau
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him. -- Samuel Smiles
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.] -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music. -- Bram Stoker
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. -- Sun Tzu
The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears. -- Nelson Mandela
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward. -- Aristotle
A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up. -- Rickson Gracie
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence. -- Edward Everett
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes. -- James F. Cooper
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. -- Andrew Jackson
A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love. -- Hani
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying. -- Pierre Corneille
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. -- Herman Melville
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home. -- Ovid
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. -- Geraldine Brooks
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war. -- Jackson C. Frank
A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,"?when? -- Ridgely Torrence
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. -- Woodrow Wilson
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born. -- Stefan Zweig
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. -- Aristotle
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads. -- Geraldine Brooks
I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. -- Marilynne Robinson
A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? 'Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500?' -- Meredith Willson
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. -- Alexander Pope
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't. -- Stephen King
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other. -- Josef Pieper
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. -- Zebulon Pike
There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize. -- Elizabeth Alder
â?¦.it was a brave manâ??s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death? -- Anne Rice
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this. -- Raymond E. Feist
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death. -- Sun Tzu
I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword! -- Terry Goodkind
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does. -- Charles Bukowski
The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. -- Chinua Achebe
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. -- Homer
I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country. -- Cindy Sheehan
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. -- James A. Garfield
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so. -- Aristotle
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born. -- Homer
In life I learned that you should not brag, until you've done it And even worse than that.. Could you do it again?? That's why I'm always humble, humbleness is a brave man's obligation, since he knows what it takes to accomplish a great deed -- Renzo Gracie
A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every time, until you were alone and gasping for breath. -- Conn Iggulden
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. -- Aristotle
Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands. -- George S. Patton
Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity's sake? Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. "I do what I can." Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. "You are a brave man. -- Gail Carriger
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified. -- James Russell Lowell
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself. -- P. T. Barnum
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. -- James Freeman Clarke
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan. -- Sebastian Coe
I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out. -- Bob Uecker
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. -- Orison Swett Marden
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. -- Robert Green Ingersoll

Send