Brave Man Quotes - Page 8

• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

  James Ellis

  Men, Brave, Victory

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• If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

  James A. Garfield

  Integrity, Men, Brave

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• This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

  John Doolittle

  Country, Veterans Day, War

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• Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Men, Bravery

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.534, Best Books on

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• Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Men, Sight

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• Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Men, Bravery

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• A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

  Alexander Pope

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.379

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• The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

  Democritus

  Men, Cities, Brave

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 163), 1948.

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• The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Thinking, Jumping

  "Notes of a Dirty Old Man". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1969.

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• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  Eric L. Haney

  Selfish, War, Men

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• A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

  Confucius

  Men, Bravery, Good Man

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Brave, Coward

  "Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics".

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• When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

  Aristotle

  Running, Adventure, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1763, Princeton University Press

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• It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Thought Provoking, Brave

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.11, Heinemann

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• My dad was an incredibly brave man, completely dedicated to his family, with a love for all. If I could be half the dad he was, to my children, then that will be an achievement in itself. He died 14 months exactly to the start of the 2012 Olympics. I hope he will be watching and waving his big union jack in London from somewhere else. I love you so much dad.

  Tom Daley

  Children, Dad, Love You

  "Tom Daley devasted after his father Rob loses his battle with cancer aged just 40" by Susie Boniface, www.mirror.co.uk. May 29, 2011.

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• ….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

  Anne Rice

  Fear, Men, Brave

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• Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

  Mark Dayton

  Cutting, Men, Iraq

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• Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

  Mark Pryor

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Bravery

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• For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

  Marty Meehan

  Country, Home, Winning

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• Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

  Amit Ray

  War, Men, Brave

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.39, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

  Dave Price

  War, Men, Reality

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• Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

  Homer

  Grief, Fate, Men

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• Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Justice, Brave

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.583, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Princess, Army

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.387, Macmillan

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