Bravery

"I'll say this for the Queen. She was brave—or possibly stupid. It's easy to mistake the two."

"A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible."

"All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave."

"Brave men were living before Agamemnon."

"The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds, Are touched with a desire to shield and save:— A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods Are they—now furious as the sweeping wave, Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods The rugged tree unto the summer wind, Compassion breathes along the savage mind."

"Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest."

"I wonder if this is what bravery is: adrenaline plus love plus absolute stupidity."

"It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave."

"Fortem Posce Animum Pray for God to give you a Brave Soul"

"The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound (So should desert in arms be crowned). The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair."

"Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus"

"Some of the bravest political work in this country and around the world has happened because people often too young to grasp their own mortality stick their necks out. The job of the rest of us is to rise to the occasion of their bravery. The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the future."

"Rewa was brave. At least, she was thick-witted enough to be able to ignore personal danger to a great extent."

"There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him."

"Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest."

"— How can a man be brave when he's afraid ? — It is the only time a man can be brave."

"Arya watched them die and said nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? ... There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones."

"'Tis more brave To live, than to die."

"I'm not a brave man. My self-image is of a very small and weak person. In point of fact, I'm almost six feet, and solidly built. But I was a late bloomer. I spent those formative early high-school years as a pudgy little science whimp. I'm still scared of big men with deep voices."

"Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."

"He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest; he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on And wore us out of act."

"What's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us."

"Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignores ad desperationem formidine properare."

"In the ebb and flow of battle there are usually only brief flashes of bravery before the brave become the dead."

"Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it."

"Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Länder Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut."

"Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann, Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang; Wer hohes Muths sich rühmen kann Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang."

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"

"Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup."

"Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more."

"The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man."

"Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe: They took the spear, but left the shield."

"The brave Love mercy, and delight to save."

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

"O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of his children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet or dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly."

"Ardentem frigidus Ætnam insiluit."

"Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro."

"True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world."

"How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old."

"Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant."

"Omne solum forti patria est."

"Audentes deus ipse juvat."

"Who combats bravely is not therefore brave: He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave."

"Dem Muthigen hilft Gott."

"Fortes fortuna adjuvat."

"Bravery never goes out of fashion."

"Audentes fortuna juvat."