Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Bravery

Quotes about: Bravery

• True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Bravery, Solitude

• True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Memorial Day

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

• The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Men, Vanity

• We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

• The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Giving

• Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Bravery, Greed

• Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Presence Of Mind, People

• Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Sight, Bravery

• Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Simple, Bravery, Soldier

• We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Eye, Office

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