Brave Man Quotes - Page 4

• There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Two, Brave

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays”, p.195, Random House

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• I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Brave, Facts

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• A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Hands, Brave

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.214, Hayes Barton Press

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• The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Men, Brave, Risk

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• The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Running, Courage, Children

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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• A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

  Khem Veasna

  Men, Brave, Dare

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• A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

  John Dryden

  Men, Brave, Quarrels

  John Dryden (2014). “All for Love”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Gun, Men

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• To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

  Aristotle

  Suicide, Men, Order

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.74

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• The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspiration, Men, Brave

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.17

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• A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Men, Bully, Brave

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.105

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• Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.316

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• Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

  Homer

  Men, Brave, Honor

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• The whole earth is the brave man's country.
  [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

  Ovid

  Country, Men, Brave

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• In life I learned that you should not brag, until you've done it And even worse than that.. Could you do it again?? That's why I'm always humble, humbleness is a brave man's obligation, since he knows what it takes to accomplish a great deed

  Renzo Gracie

  Humble, Men, Brave

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• Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Men, Brave

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• New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.

  Tom Udall

  Men, Brave, Mexico

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• A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?

  Ridgely Torrence

  Strong, Men, Years

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• Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A Nation's Strength”

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• I think when I close my eyes what I think is 4,500 days or so, 4,250 I guess days, was long enough to give Iraq to come into compliance with the international order. And I think to myself how many Iraqi citizens died under the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein during those 4,200 odd days, and I think to myself how many more citizens of how many nations, the United States, Israel, or any other neighbor would die if Saddam Hussein went unchecked, though I am just grieved by the sacrifice of our brave men and women, but I think ultimately the greater good is served.

  Richard Armitage

  Eye, Sacrifice, Men

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• We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.

  Dick Durbin

  Sacrifice, Men, Brave

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• A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
  [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Country, Men, Brave

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• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Adversity, Men

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• A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up.

  Rickson Gracie

  Real, Fall, Men

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• Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Fire, Brave

  "De Providentia", V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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