1,469 Quotes About Bravery

  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

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  • Author Guy Verhofstadt
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    Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

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  • Author Voltaire
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    It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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  • Author James Wolfe
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    I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

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  • Author Stuart Wilde
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    Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

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