It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
- J R R Tolkien
The future doesn't belong to the faint of heart. It belongs to the brave.
- Ronald Reagan
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
- Ronald Reagan
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
- Aeschylus
Victory does not come to cowards;it comes to the brave ones.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave.
I suppose that now, I must become more than either.
- Veronica Roth
and each man kills he thing he loves, by all let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword.
- Paulo Coelho
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave
- Paulo Coelho
The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and gripped by anxiety about their every action, wondering if they are right or wrong. And yet nevertheless, they act.
- Paulo Coelho
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..
- Louisa May Alcott
I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I'd ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you
- Cassandra Clare
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
- Ernest Hemingway
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
- Ernest Hemingway
And that ring deserves another sixty years and more of love on it," she said, gesturing toward the drawer. "I'd never say this out loud to anyone, but I guess we're getting all touchy-feely: Livia? She's the bravest chick I've ever met. Let her have it, Blake. Let her have what I never did.
- Debra Anastasia
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
- Meg Cabot
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
- Meg Cabot
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
- Ernst Moritz Arndt
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself
- Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
- Oscar Wilde
I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.
- Danny Bautista
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
- Melissa Bean
...But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, and says firmly, "You have just deliberately and cruelly exposed my ignorance before this company; I shall, therefore, beat you soundly with this stick in the presence of them all."
This you then do to him or he to you, mutatis mutandis, ceteris paribus; and that is all I have to say on Ignorance.
- Hilaire Belloc
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.
- John Steinbeck
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
- Marion Berry
None but the brave deserves the fair.
- John Dryden
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
- Andrew Jackson
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.
- Tamora Pierce
For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy.
- Cory Booker
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)
- Samuel Johnson
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
- Ann Brashares
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
- Geraldine Brooks
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.
- Geraldine Brooks
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
- John F Kennedy
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins"
From "The Gods of the Copybook Headings
- Rudyard Kipling
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
- John Buford
Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.
- Rick Riordan
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
- Voltaire
The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.
- Joyce Cary
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
- Catherine Ii
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Fortune favours the brave.
- Virgil
It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
- Dick Cheney
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
- Lydia M Child
And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.
- Kate Chopin
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
- Carol P Christ
When I realized I was going to die, the only thing I could think about was you and what an idiot I'd been for not telling you how I felt about you. I think I've loved you from the moment you lifted that awful blindfold off my face. I opened my eyes, and there you were, the bravest, most beautiful woman I've ever known. You set me free Natalie. In so many ways, you set me free.
- Pamela Clare
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
- Arthur Hugh Clough
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
- Sun Tzu
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
- Terry Pratchett
Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
- Robert A Heinlein
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
- William Collins
The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.
- Theodore Dalrymple
To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru...sucks to be you.
- Peter David
This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
- Elmer Davis
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
- Elmer Davis
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
- Susan Davis
Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast
Grant God, he charge the bravest
Of all the martial blest!
Please God, might I behold him
In epauletted white
I should not fear the foe then
I should not fear the fight!
- Emily Dickinson
You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.
- Matthew Dicks
I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.
- Novak Djokovic
I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.
- Karen Duffy
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
- Katherine Dunn
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
- George Eliot
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
- Lane Evans
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
- Raymond E Feist
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
The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.
- Nelson Mandela
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
- Victor Hugo
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover.
- Thomas Foran
He leaned close, rubbing his bearded cheek against my ear. 'And how about a sweet kiss, now, for the brave lads of the clan MacKenzie? Tulach Ard!'
Erin go bragh,' I said rudely, and pushed with all my strength.
- Diana Gabaldon
You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.
- Neil Gaiman
The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.
- George R R Martin
Even the bravest men fear death and maiming
- George R R Martin
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
- Indira Gandhi
I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
- Peter Garrett
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
- John Gay
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
- John Gay
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!
- Patrick Henry
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
- Patrick Henry
Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,--darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love. And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes.
He closed the door in her face.
- William Goldman
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
- Dave Grohl
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
- David Halberstam
You have a high opinion of yourself, Anita. Confident. I like that. Always so much more entertaining to break someone strong. The weaklings fold and cry and snivel, but the brave ones, they almost demand that you hurt them." He stalked towards me, reaching out one white spider-hand. "Do you want me to hurt you?
- Laurell K Hamilton
I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
- Ira Hayes
You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
- Joseph Heller
It is only the brave who win life's rewards. Those who don't overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things.
- Kevis Hendrickson
By Gryffindor, the bravest were
Prized far beyond the rest;
For Ravenclaw, the cleverest
Would always be the best;
For Hufflepuff, hard workers were
Most worthy of admission;
And power-hungry Slytherin
Loved those of great ambition.
- J K Rowling
Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
- J K Rowling
Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!
- J K Rowling
Where are you heading, if you've got the choice?"
" 'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!' Like my dad" James replied proudly.
A muffled snort came from the corner from where Severus was sat.
James turned to look at him
"Got a problem with that?"
"No. If you'd rather be brawny than brainy..." Snape retorted.
"Where're you hoping to go seeing as you're neither?" Sirius snapped.
- J K Rowling
I'm going to Hagrid's, I've got a good feeling about going to Hagrid's."
Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother..."
---------------------------------------------------
"Albus Severus..you were named for the two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
- J K Rowling
Albus Severus, you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
- J K Rowling
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!
- Frank Herbert
There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness.
- Frank Herbert
Grave this in your memory, lad. A world is supported by four things: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave. But all of the these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
- Frank Herbert
Not the title. Not the riches. Not the bravery. Not the glory. Just the man. The simple man, standing before her, looking into her eyes as if he saw just the woman. For the first time in their lives, they were truly alone.
From The Dulcet Duke
- Diana Holquist
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
- Homer
Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions..
- Homer
Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power
- Homer
Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.
- Tim Hudson
Think, Dagny, what it is to sit by the window in the eventide and hear the kelpie wailing in the boat-house; to sit waiting and listening for the dead men's ride to Valhal; for their way lies past us here in the north. They are the brave men that fell in fight, the strong women that did not drag out their lives tamely, like thee and me; they sweep through the storm-night on their black horses, with jangling bells! Ha, Dagny! think of riding the last ride on so rare a steed!
- Henrik Ibsen
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
- Muhammad Iqbal
But the warriors true, the brave of heart
Who valiently upheld the right
They are raised on high to the velvet sky
Bringing light to the darkness of night
- Brian Jacques
Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.
- P D James
She will fight for light, and he for dark,
Battling through the ages for loves sweet spark.
Wherever two souls adore truly, you will find them, lo,
The brave Juliet and the wicked Romeo.
- Stacey Jay
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
- Ben Jonson
What I lack in courage I more than make up for in underwear. I am possibly the bravest coward to ever go commando.
- Jarod Kintz
My father sacrificed his life for our family when I was growing up. He was one of the bravest, wisest, and most unselfish goats I have ever known, and I will miss his cheese dearly.
- Jarod Kintz
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
- Francis Scott Key
Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
- Walter Knott
How dare you! What is your name? I shall make it a sin to be spoken."
The braveness of his chuckle and grin made me step back. "Garrett. My name is Garrett and please make my name a sin to speak. Maybe that way I won't have people like you screaming out for people like me; for people like you are so ghastly and in need of saving too many times." Lucy to Garrett from my Steampunk YA Romance book I have started.
- Elizabeth J Kolodziej
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
- Nick Lampson
Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
- Kathryn Lasky
I wanted you to see something about herI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
- Harper Lee
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
- Harper Lee
[Mrs. Dubose] was the bravest person I ever knew.
- Harper Lee
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
If you're really uncomfortable with this, you don't have to do it."
I hold my breath as I lean back to get her answer, hoping the brave one will win out.
And she does.
Slowly, Olivia shakes her head and wiggles a little closer to me on the bar. Her eyes are sparkling with determination. And challenge. And it makes me jerk in my jeans.
I grin at her. "All right. You asked for it,
- M Leighton
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
- Charles Godfrey Leland
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
- Juliette Lewis
It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.
- Richard Linklater
As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
- Dan Lipinski
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
- Titus Livius
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
- James Russell Lowell
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
- Douglas Macarthur
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
- Charles Mackay
What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
- Cormac Mccarthy
To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions... and faith, the bravest of convictions.
- Gerard De Marigny
I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.
- Frank Mccourt
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned
- Edna St Vincent Millay
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St Vincent Millay
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
- Alanis Morissette
The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.
- Wesley Morris
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all.
- Courtney Allison Moulton
I'd heard someone say that bravery was doing the thing you were afraid to do, despite your fear. If that was true I was the bravest person I knew
- Chloe Neill
Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
- Bob Newhart
Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.
- Peggy Noonan
Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Ovid
They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers (listen businessmen collegepresidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons all right you have won you will kill the brave men our friends tonight (author's punctuation)
- John Dos Passos
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
- Tim Pawlenty
My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
- Shimon Peres
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
- Jesse Ventura
Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
- Gabriela Sabatini
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
- Mort Sahl
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
- Sallust
You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.
- Peter Sarsgaard
God helps the brave
- Friedrich Schiller
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
- George Sewell
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.
- Hugh Sidey
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Laurence Stern
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
- Laurence Sterne
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
- Tacitus
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
- Bayard Taylor
Fortune favors the brave.
- Terence
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
Be strong! ... You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair." None but the bravest deserves salvation.
- Swami Vivekananda
You got to tell me the brave captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on?
- Tom Waits
He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.
- Edward Lewis Wallant
No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
- Jeannette Walls
The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.
- T H White
I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.
- Ruth Wilson
Disorder in the house
The doors are coming off the hinges
The earth will open and swallow up the real estate
I just got my paycheck
I'm gonna paint the whole town grey
Whether it's a night in Paris or a Fresno matinee
It's the home of the brave and the land of the free
Where the less you know the better off you'll be
- Warren Zevon
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
- Xun Zi
- J R R Tolkien
The future doesn't belong to the faint of heart. It belongs to the brave.
- Ronald Reagan
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
- Ronald Reagan
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
- Aeschylus
Victory does not come to cowards;it comes to the brave ones.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave.
I suppose that now, I must become more than either.
- Veronica Roth
and each man kills he thing he loves, by all let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword.
- Paulo Coelho
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave
- Paulo Coelho
The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and gripped by anxiety about their every action, wondering if they are right or wrong. And yet nevertheless, they act.
- Paulo Coelho
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..
- Louisa May Alcott
I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I'd ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you
- Cassandra Clare
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
- Ernest Hemingway
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
- Ernest Hemingway
And that ring deserves another sixty years and more of love on it," she said, gesturing toward the drawer. "I'd never say this out loud to anyone, but I guess we're getting all touchy-feely: Livia? She's the bravest chick I've ever met. Let her have it, Blake. Let her have what I never did.
- Debra Anastasia
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
- Meg Cabot
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
- Meg Cabot
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
- Ernst Moritz Arndt
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself
- Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
- Oscar Wilde
I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.
- Danny Bautista
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
- Melissa Bean
...But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, and says firmly, "You have just deliberately and cruelly exposed my ignorance before this company; I shall, therefore, beat you soundly with this stick in the presence of them all."
This you then do to him or he to you, mutatis mutandis, ceteris paribus; and that is all I have to say on Ignorance.
- Hilaire Belloc
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.
- John Steinbeck
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
- Marion Berry
None but the brave deserves the fair.
- John Dryden
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
- Andrew Jackson
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.
- Tamora Pierce
For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy.
- Cory Booker
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)
- Samuel Johnson
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
- Ann Brashares
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
- Geraldine Brooks
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.
- Geraldine Brooks
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
- John F Kennedy
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins"
From "The Gods of the Copybook Headings
- Rudyard Kipling
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
- John Buford
Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.
- Rick Riordan
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
- Voltaire
The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.
- Joyce Cary
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
- Catherine Ii
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Fortune favours the brave.
- Virgil
It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
- Dick Cheney
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
- Lydia M Child
And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.
- Kate Chopin
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
- Carol P Christ
When I realized I was going to die, the only thing I could think about was you and what an idiot I'd been for not telling you how I felt about you. I think I've loved you from the moment you lifted that awful blindfold off my face. I opened my eyes, and there you were, the bravest, most beautiful woman I've ever known. You set me free Natalie. In so many ways, you set me free.
- Pamela Clare
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
- Arthur Hugh Clough
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
- Sun Tzu
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
- Terry Pratchett
Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
- Robert A Heinlein
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
- William Collins
The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.
- Theodore Dalrymple
To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru...sucks to be you.
- Peter David
This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
- Elmer Davis
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
- Elmer Davis
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
- Susan Davis
Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast
Grant God, he charge the bravest
Of all the martial blest!
Please God, might I behold him
In epauletted white
I should not fear the foe then
I should not fear the fight!
- Emily Dickinson
You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.
- Matthew Dicks
I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.
- Novak Djokovic
I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.
- Karen Duffy
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
- Katherine Dunn
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
- George Eliot
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
- Lane Evans
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
- Raymond E Feist
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
The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.
- Nelson Mandela
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
- Victor Hugo
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover.
- Thomas Foran
He leaned close, rubbing his bearded cheek against my ear. 'And how about a sweet kiss, now, for the brave lads of the clan MacKenzie? Tulach Ard!'
Erin go bragh,' I said rudely, and pushed with all my strength.
- Diana Gabaldon
You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.
- Neil Gaiman
The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.
- George R R Martin
Even the bravest men fear death and maiming
- George R R Martin
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
- Indira Gandhi
I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
- Peter Garrett
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
- John Gay
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
- John Gay
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!
- Patrick Henry
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
- Patrick Henry
Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,--darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love. And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes.
He closed the door in her face.
- William Goldman
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
- Dave Grohl
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
- David Halberstam
You have a high opinion of yourself, Anita. Confident. I like that. Always so much more entertaining to break someone strong. The weaklings fold and cry and snivel, but the brave ones, they almost demand that you hurt them." He stalked towards me, reaching out one white spider-hand. "Do you want me to hurt you?
- Laurell K Hamilton
I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
- Ira Hayes
You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
- Joseph Heller
It is only the brave who win life's rewards. Those who don't overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things.
- Kevis Hendrickson
By Gryffindor, the bravest were
Prized far beyond the rest;
For Ravenclaw, the cleverest
Would always be the best;
For Hufflepuff, hard workers were
Most worthy of admission;
And power-hungry Slytherin
Loved those of great ambition.
- J K Rowling
Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
- J K Rowling
Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!
- J K Rowling
Where are you heading, if you've got the choice?"
" 'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!' Like my dad" James replied proudly.
A muffled snort came from the corner from where Severus was sat.
James turned to look at him
"Got a problem with that?"
"No. If you'd rather be brawny than brainy..." Snape retorted.
"Where're you hoping to go seeing as you're neither?" Sirius snapped.
- J K Rowling
I'm going to Hagrid's, I've got a good feeling about going to Hagrid's."
Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother..."
---------------------------------------------------
"Albus Severus..you were named for the two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
- J K Rowling
Albus Severus, you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
- J K Rowling
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!
- Frank Herbert
There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness.
- Frank Herbert
Grave this in your memory, lad. A world is supported by four things: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave. But all of the these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
- Frank Herbert
Not the title. Not the riches. Not the bravery. Not the glory. Just the man. The simple man, standing before her, looking into her eyes as if he saw just the woman. For the first time in their lives, they were truly alone.
From The Dulcet Duke
- Diana Holquist
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
- Homer
Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions..
- Homer
Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power
- Homer
Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.
- Tim Hudson
Think, Dagny, what it is to sit by the window in the eventide and hear the kelpie wailing in the boat-house; to sit waiting and listening for the dead men's ride to Valhal; for their way lies past us here in the north. They are the brave men that fell in fight, the strong women that did not drag out their lives tamely, like thee and me; they sweep through the storm-night on their black horses, with jangling bells! Ha, Dagny! think of riding the last ride on so rare a steed!
- Henrik Ibsen
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
- Muhammad Iqbal
But the warriors true, the brave of heart
Who valiently upheld the right
They are raised on high to the velvet sky
Bringing light to the darkness of night
- Brian Jacques
Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.
- P D James
She will fight for light, and he for dark,
Battling through the ages for loves sweet spark.
Wherever two souls adore truly, you will find them, lo,
The brave Juliet and the wicked Romeo.
- Stacey Jay
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
- Ben Jonson
What I lack in courage I more than make up for in underwear. I am possibly the bravest coward to ever go commando.
- Jarod Kintz
My father sacrificed his life for our family when I was growing up. He was one of the bravest, wisest, and most unselfish goats I have ever known, and I will miss his cheese dearly.
- Jarod Kintz
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
- Francis Scott Key
Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
- Walter Knott
How dare you! What is your name? I shall make it a sin to be spoken."
The braveness of his chuckle and grin made me step back. "Garrett. My name is Garrett and please make my name a sin to speak. Maybe that way I won't have people like you screaming out for people like me; for people like you are so ghastly and in need of saving too many times." Lucy to Garrett from my Steampunk YA Romance book I have started.
- Elizabeth J Kolodziej
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
- Nick Lampson
Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
- Kathryn Lasky
I wanted you to see something about herI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
- Harper Lee
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
- Harper Lee
[Mrs. Dubose] was the bravest person I ever knew.
- Harper Lee
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
If you're really uncomfortable with this, you don't have to do it."
I hold my breath as I lean back to get her answer, hoping the brave one will win out.
And she does.
Slowly, Olivia shakes her head and wiggles a little closer to me on the bar. Her eyes are sparkling with determination. And challenge. And it makes me jerk in my jeans.
I grin at her. "All right. You asked for it,
- M Leighton
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
- Charles Godfrey Leland
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
- Juliette Lewis
It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.
- Richard Linklater
As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
- Dan Lipinski
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
- Titus Livius
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
- James Russell Lowell
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
- Douglas Macarthur
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
- Charles Mackay
What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
- Cormac Mccarthy
To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions... and faith, the bravest of convictions.
- Gerard De Marigny
I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.
- Frank Mccourt
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned
- Edna St Vincent Millay
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St Vincent Millay
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
- Alanis Morissette
The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.
- Wesley Morris
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all.
- Courtney Allison Moulton
I'd heard someone say that bravery was doing the thing you were afraid to do, despite your fear. If that was true I was the bravest person I knew
- Chloe Neill
Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
- Bob Newhart
Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.
- Peggy Noonan
Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Ovid
They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers (listen businessmen collegepresidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons all right you have won you will kill the brave men our friends tonight (author's punctuation)
- John Dos Passos
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
- Tim Pawlenty
My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
- Shimon Peres
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
- Jesse Ventura
Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
- Gabriela Sabatini
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
- Mort Sahl
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
- Sallust
You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.
- Peter Sarsgaard
God helps the brave
- Friedrich Schiller
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
- George Sewell
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.
- Hugh Sidey
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Laurence Stern
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
- Laurence Sterne
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
- Tacitus
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
- Bayard Taylor
Fortune favors the brave.
- Terence
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
Be strong! ... You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair." None but the bravest deserves salvation.
- Swami Vivekananda
You got to tell me the brave captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on?
- Tom Waits
He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.
- Edward Lewis Wallant
No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
- Jeannette Walls
The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.
- T H White
I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.
- Ruth Wilson
Disorder in the house
The doors are coming off the hinges
The earth will open and swallow up the real estate
I just got my paycheck
I'm gonna paint the whole town grey
Whether it's a night in Paris or a Fresno matinee
It's the home of the brave and the land of the free
Where the less you know the better off you'll be
- Warren Zevon
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
- Xun Zi
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