Brave Man Quotes

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Bravery, Devil

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

  Euripides

  Eye, Sunshine, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Iphigenia in Tauris,, alone by the shore”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Inspiration, Men, Hands

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• Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Cities, Brave

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• Whatever you do, you need courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Decide Upon, Criticism

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• The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Adversity, Men, Bravery

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)”

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• To live with glory, or with glory die,
  This is the brave man's part.

  Sophocles

  Men, Brave, Glory

  "Tragedies".

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• The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Courage, Military

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1937). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

  Euripides

  Courage, Men, Choices

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

  Aristotle

  Men, Bravery, Clear

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• To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on! 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

  Dream, Stupid, Struggle

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• Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Courage, Philosophical, Heart

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• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Brave

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• Each man kills the thing he loves.

  Anthony Burgess

  Broken Heart, Betrayal, Men

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Meaningful, Courage, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.126

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• A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.

  Saul Bellow

  Brother, Father, Ambition

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• It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

  Sophocles

  Hate, Men, Brave

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• All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

  George S. Patton

  Intelligent, Men, Bravery

  "An Owner's Manual for Men: What You Need to Know Before You Venture Out There". Book by Joe Nickaloff, p.96, 2011.

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• In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Sheep, Brave

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Brave men are brave from the very first.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Bravery, Firsts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Cid, II. 3, 1922.

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