Top 80 Bravery Quotes

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq’s national unity government.

I try not to compare myself to the character. Mulan makes it happen – not through big drama, but through little decisions and bravery and self-awareness.

You don’t know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

I’ve been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in ‘The Interview’ because it’s just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.

Bravery is the engine of change.

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.

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they’re living.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life’s disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

It’s obvious the Green Industrial Revolution will challenge orthodox political and economic thinking. That requires bravery from both politicians and electorates.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.

I would love to be looked at some day – and I’m not ever saying I’m at this level – but I’d love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.

It takes bravery to be a young mom, and it does take bravery to let the world watch.

I think bravery is to get on the ball and be bold enough and confident enough to try things when everyone is looking at you and the pressure is on and people are expecting you to win.

Pakistani nation and Pak Army have written a new history of bravery and valor against terrorism.

There is magic in Scotland. It’s country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into that.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in ‘Talon,’ my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human… even if you’re not human.

You see, as I go along, I’ve come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can’t get rid of it.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery – courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

My late father Rev. James Thomas McGlowan was the inspiration behind ‘Bamboozled.’ My father admired Frederick Douglass’ courage and his bravery in the face of adversity.

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

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.

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

I was told in many places of Osgar’s bravery and Goll’s strength and Conan’s bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin’s journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

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.

Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

The way Ederson plays is so brave. To dare to play like that is bravery and it also enables City to play with a much higher press. They are able to really press because they know any ball in behind he will sweep up.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

I came home one day and Nick was in his bedroom reading ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ and the tears were just flowing down his cheeks, at the terrible injustice that was being described in that book and the bravery of fighting against it.

I hope for continued bravery and risk-taking for all theatremakers in 2018 and beyond.

People ask if I would do the TT myself – the actual romance of doing it is in me but the chances are zero. I can’t belittle the talent and the bravery and the endurance that goes into a race like this. The competitors are some of the bravest men on the planet and it is one of the biggest challenges a racer can take on.

The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions – not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

If you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.

Whatever you think of Edward Snowden, it took bravery to do what he did.

Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

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.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Mulan represents honour and bravery, but, for me, it’s also that she’s willing to discover herself and willing to go forward. I think that’s important to audiences too. Not many people would be willing to do that in the first place.

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.

A woman’s decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated as an act of bravery and selflessness – the ultimate standards of good motherhood.

What’s really important is to recognize when people do great things or when people pursue an initiative or show enormous generosity or heart or bravery.

John’s legacy? His bravery. When he had the power, he used it. He really wanted peace on Earth, and John’s lyrics, well, that’s the brave poetry of the ’60s. If he had stayed with us, he could have done so much more.

The bravery and pioneering of early Hollywood was absolutely incredible.

Brave means that we will try to create something for ourselves. Brave means never going backwards when we can go forwards. That is the bravery that we need.