1,469 Quotes About Bravery

As I look at my nation, I am generally impressed by the physical courage of its citizenry but distressed by the lack of intellectual or moral courage. I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage. Yet if my nation is to go down the tubes, I suspect it will be more because of a deficit in its intellectual bravery.

He had the looks of a leading man, ... He was a scholar and correspondent and he had the bravery of a knight.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

As we remember our nation's bravest, let us live up to the ideals for which they fought and died, that we may be not just the beneficiaries of their bravery but stewards of their sacrifice.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."