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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
Sep 10, 2025
You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.
It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
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.
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!
It takes courage to be the author of your life.
If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.
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.
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Too often in the past, our Armed Forces have returned to Canada from their trials with little fanfare. Not so today. Canadians across the country came out in force, united in appreciation, to honour the bravery, heroism, strength and sacrifice of those who fought for freedom and security in Afghanistan.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse - but we would never move forward in fear.
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.
Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.
Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.