Brave Man Quotes

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.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

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.

To the brave man every land is a native country.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

What is war but your usual custom? Or what is sweeter for a brave man than to seek revenge with his own hand? It is right for nature to glut the soul with vengeance. Let us then attack the foe eagerly, for they are ever the bolder who make the attack.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

I who am not a specially brave man have had to sustain the sinking courage of these professional fighters in critical times. When it was proposed to station [Gen. Henry W.] Halleck here in general command, he insisted, to use his own language, on the appointment of a general-in-chief who should be held responsible for results. We appointed him and all went well enough until [John] Pope's death, when he broke down—nerve and pluck all gone—and has ever since evaded all possible responsibility—little more since then than a first-rate clerk.

He's a good, brave and honourable soldier.