Brave Quotes Quotes

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

James Branch Cabell

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Chief Joseph, Nez Perces Tribe

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mohandas Gandhi

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Voltaire

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

John Donne

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

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Alexander Pope

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Lowell, James Russell

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Sallust

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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Aristotle

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

William Collins