Bravery is a rare and glorious quality. There is a common belief that you have to be physically strong to be brave and smart but the certitude is that the roots of bravery lie in one’s own mind. It’s a quality that requires mental strength and some conditioning from your surroundings which means that the weakest of people can be strong and brave when surrounded by strong minded people. The only thing needed to make one brave is the mind-set to not give up and a determination to pursue. Read these quotes to get the brave heart.
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Bravery Quotes
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
 Jean Paul |
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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. Smith |
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi |
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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.
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You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Dolly Parton |
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson |
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin |
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball |
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Just go up to somebody on the street and say "You're it!" and then run away.
Ellen DeGeneres |
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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing .
Herodotus |
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus |
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell |
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Herodotus |
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus |
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid |
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis de Sade |
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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne |
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And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
Salman Rushdie |
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Salman Rushdie |
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I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Spike Milligan |
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Pericles |
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich |
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham Maslow |
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Harper Lee |
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee |
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles Lindbergh |
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali |
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides |
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides |
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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable |
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones |
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A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki |
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Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Robert Kiyosaki |
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Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
Robert Redford |
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Julius Caesar |
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May |
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria |
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Earl Nightingale |
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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 |
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster |
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A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
Carlos Castaneda |
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A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
Carlos Castaneda |
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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
Carlos Castaneda |
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A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
Carlos Castaneda |
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Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
General George S. Patton |
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Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
General George S. Patton |
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Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
General George S. Patton |
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
General George S. Patton |
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart |
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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He who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
Luther Martin |
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael |
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Jean Anouilh |
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman |
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I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.
Jennifer Love Hewitt |
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I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
Margaret Cho |
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Christopher Marlowe |
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
Mike Tyson |
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