Brave Quotes - Page 33

• And I read the moral--A brave endeavour
  To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,
  Is better than life with love forever,
  And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

  James Jeffrey Roche

  Love Is, Forever, And Love

  James Jeffrey Roche, “Sir Hugo's Choice”

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• Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

  Douglas Pagels

  Patience, Courage, Strong

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.

  Mart Laar

  Eye, Reality, Men

  Interview with Stephen J. Dubner at "'Freakonomics Radio" podcast, March 24, 2010.

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• A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

  Vance Havner

  Storm, Height, Faces

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• Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.

  Gary Haugen

  Scary, Soul, Shapes

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• We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

  William Shakespeare

  Fields, Traitor, Brevity

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.516, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
  [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
  Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

  Ovid

  Indulge In, Trouble, Easy

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• Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, England, Found

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• Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. Its not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.

  Imelda Staunton

  Bullying, Children, Being Bullied

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• The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

  Cyndi Lauper

  People, Creative, Remember

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• Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

  Craig Ferguson

  Insane, Looks, Acid

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• A brave man is seldom unkind.

  Pretty Shield

  Courage, Men, Unkind

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• All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

  Aristotle

  Children, Animal, Quality

  Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Wise, Opportunity, Achievement

  Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”

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• There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that Ive gone through.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Kids, Gone

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• A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Civilization

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, America, People

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 21, 2015

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• I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Decision, Next

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• Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Hard Work, Grandmother, Intelligent

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Intelligent, Two, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.83, Hamilton Books

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• I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

  Alexander the Great

  Son, Land, Feet

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• There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Country, Men, Combat

  "Being a Voice for Our Veterans" by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Believe, Roots, People

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