(192 quotes found)
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly”
Corra Harris
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
Erica Jong
“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing”
Mark Twain
“O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth.”
William Shakespeare
“Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word”
“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.”
Thucydides
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
Jules Verne
“If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.”
Chuck Tanner
“For months you've referred to me as your hero, But it's easy to be brave when I have you to come home to, and hide behind, and hold on to. I wish you the happiest birthday ever... . Let's eat!”
Melissa Gilbert
“There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.”
Victor Hugo