(100 quotes found)
“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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.”
General George S. Patton
“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
“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.”
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
Pearl S. Buck
“Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.”
Samuel Johnson
“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
Mary Tyler Moore
“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”
Omar Bradley
“Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.”
Wendell Phillips
“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
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