“The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.”
Euripides
“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
“The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from”
Joanna Baillie
“Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.”
Sir Philip Sidney
“One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''”
Plutarch
“He had the looks of a leading man, ... He was a scholar and correspondent and he had the bravery of a knight.”
Dan Rather
