Bravery Quotes

• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Memorial Day, Courage, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

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  What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Courage, Buddhist

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.111, Middleway Press

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• Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Encouraging, Courage, Failure

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Courage, Time

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• The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

  Meg Cabot

  Stay Strong, Courage, Business

  "The Princess Diaries". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

  El Cordobes

  Inspirational, Courage, Believe

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  Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.192, Crown

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• All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

  George S. Patton

  Intelligent, Men, No Fear

  "An Owner's Manual for Men: What You Need to Know Before You Venture Out There". Book by Joe Nickaloff, p.96, 2011.

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• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational Sports, Courage, Feelings

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

  Denholm Elliott

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

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• Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2013

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Courage is grace under pressure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

  When asked what he meant by 'guts' in an interview with Dorothy Parker: 'New Yorker' 30 November 1929

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• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Fear cuts deeper than swords.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Cutting, Ice

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.566, Bantam

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• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

  Victor Hugo

  Women, Curiosity, Feminine

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.3, Mondial

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  There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hero, Patriotic, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

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