(127 quotes found)
“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”
Dr. Robert Anthony
“Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.”
Samuel Johnson
“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
“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”
Omar Bradley
“To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.”
Richard Thompson
“Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.”
Wendell Phillips
“Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.”
El Cordobes
“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
“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.”
Sir Philip Sidney
“Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."”
Eric Sevareid