Brave Quotes

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Mignon McLaughlin

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Euripides

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Sallust

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James Freeman Clarke

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

Blaise Pascal

n the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

George Eliot

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection

Thomas Paine

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

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

William Butler Yeats

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

Seneca

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies

Alexander Pope

'Tis more brave To live, than to die.

Lord Lytton

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Ghandi

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Aristotle