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For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.
Sep 10, 2025
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.