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Quotes about Bravery

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.
— Shura
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
— Aristotle
All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.
— Dale Carnegie
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
— Cicero
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
— George Eliot
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
— Henry David Thoreau
Escape for your life! Do not look behind you!
— Terri Savelle Foy
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt