Brave Quotes - Page 38

• The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Envy, Laughing, Fortunate

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• The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Bravery, Example

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.128

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• I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.

  Henry IV of France

  Religion

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• Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd,
  Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave;
  For though we like it, as a forward child,
  'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

  William Davenant

  Wise, Children, Ambition

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• O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
  The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
  And all the good embrace, who know the grave
  A short dark passage to eternal light.

  William Davenant

  Death, Wise, Dark

  William Davenant, “Frail Life! In Which, Through Mists Of Human Breath”

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• To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

  John Wilmot

  Kindness, Greatness, Men

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.61, Taylor & Francis

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• I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Real, Danger, Firmness

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.175

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• The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Virtue, Dare

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• What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.249, Graphic Arts Books

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• If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Mirrors, May, Faces

  "Song: Why Are The Drums So Silent ("Sunshine, Dust and The Messenger")". 2002.

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• I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Loss, Presence Of Mind, Mentor

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• Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

  John Smith

  Kings, Soldier, Spain

  "Advertisements for the Unexperienced, etc." by Captain John Smith, Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, Third Series, Volume III, p. 49,

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• Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

  Yamada Koun

  Passion, Practice, Enemy

  Koun Yamada (2005). “The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Father, Home

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.758, Library of Alexandria

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• You cannot be brave without fear.

  Mellody Hobson

  Be Brave

  "DreamWorks Chairwoman Mellody Hobson Calls for Tolerance, Talks 'Soul Mate' George Lucas in USC Speech " by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2015.

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• Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Trying, Comfort, Groups

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.162, Hamilton Books

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• Be brave enough to never yearn For that you cannot hold close In your heart forever. Tread lightly, cherish compassion And live in the moment without fear.

  Scott Hastie

  Heart, Compassion, Forever

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• Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

  Publilius Syrus

  Holding Back

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• They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brother, Father, Struggle

  Ronald Reagan (1989). “Speaking my mind: selected speeches”, Simon & Schuster

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• Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching
  men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

  George S. Patton

  Real, Liars, Hero

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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• For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, House, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Essays”

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• But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hard Times, Secret, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

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