Brave Quotes - Page 5

• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

  George S. Patton

  Fear, War, Intelligent

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

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• It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

  A. A. Milne

  Courage, Animal, Bravery

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• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Cat, Bravery, Pet

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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  Ovid

  Love, Inspiring, Depressing

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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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• Never was a miser a brave soul.

  George Herbert

  Bravery, Soul, Literature

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

  Conrad Burns

  Military, Home, Men

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• The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

  Livy

  Helping, Results, Fortune

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book VIII, section 29,

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• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

  Ruth Gordon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

  James Mattis

  Inspirational, Courage, War

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• I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

  Victorio

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them.

  Shaka

  Fear, Heart, Men

  "Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 319, 1955.

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• The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

  Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Men, Blood, Land

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, pp. 82-83, Lehre an den Menschen, 5, 1922.

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• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

  "De Providentia" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9-10., 1922.

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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• I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

  Roald Dahl

  Flames, Bravery, Soldier

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• I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

  George Eads

  Hero, Grandmother, Aunt

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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Bravery, Literature, Weak

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• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Military, Hero, Fighting

  1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

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