Quotes about Bravery

In accepting this challenge to suffer bravely, life has a meaning up to the last moment, and it retains this meaning literally to the end. In other words, life's meaning is an unconditional one, for it even includes the potential meaning of unavoidable suffering.

Fear no more, says the heart.

And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.

He was drowned, he used to say, and lying on a cliff with gulls screaming over him. He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea. Or he was hearing music… But "Lovely!" he used to cry and the tears would run down his cheeks, which was to her the most dreadful thing of all, to see a man like Septimus, who had fought, who was brave, crying. And he would lie listening until suddenly he would cry that he was falling down, down into the flames!

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.

When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.

I know it all, I know it all. Be a brave man, my Gaspard! It is better for the poor plaything to die so, than to live. It has died in a moment without pain. Could it have lived an hour as happily?

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Norman Cousins said, "Death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is.