68 Bravery Quotes

  • There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. – John Wainwright

 

  • Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul. – Mahatma Gandhi

 

  • Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. – Jim Morrison

 

  • Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. – Wendell Phillips

 

  • Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. – Franklin P. Jones

 

  • True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. – Franois de la Rochefoucauld

 

  • Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

 

  • No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. – Veronica Roth

 

  • Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. – Aristotle

 

  • To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. – Edward Weeks

 

  • Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. – George Bernard Shaw

 

  • Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. – Samuel Johnson

  • It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. – Mark Twain

 

  • Life is either a great adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

 

  • The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. – Aristotle

 

  • I just don’t want to die without a few scars. – Chuck Palahniuk

 

  • Trust the still, small voice that says, ‘this might work and I’ll try it. – Diane Mariechild

 

  • It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. – J.K. Rowling

 

  • You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. – William Faulkner

 

  • A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – John A. Shedd

 

  • Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. – Roy T. Bennett

 

  • You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Roy T. Bennett

 

  • Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoleon Bonaparte

 

  • Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward. – Roy T. Bennett

 

  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

 

  • Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Harper Lee

 

  • The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm. – Roy T. Bennett

 

  • Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives. – Suga

 

  • Fill your lives With love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon. – Jewel Kilcher

 

  • Bravery will find you when your head is hung low. Your fear is like a fever, It too will go. – Justin Chad Davidson

 

  • I feel that bravery is the ability to face up to difficult situations not without fear but in spite of great and overwhelming fear. – Busby Berkeley

 

  • The greatest courage is the courage to change. – Nicholas Boxer

 

  • Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

 

  • A brave man acknowledges the strength of others. – Veronica Roth

 

  • Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. – Omar N. Bradley

 

  • 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. – Thucydides

 

  • There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. – L. Frank Baum

 

  • You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

  • Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage. – John F Kennedy

 

  • Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever. – Lana Del Rey

 

  • Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. – Vittorio Alfieri

 

  • You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. – Mary Tyler Moore

 

  • The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. – Robert Anthony

 

  • Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. – Thomas Fuller

 

  • I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. – Nelson Mandela

 

  • The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. – Joanna Baillie

 

  • A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. – Philip Sidney

 

  • Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton

 

  • Brave men go forward not expecting to return. – Bona

 

  • Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters. – Dau Voire

 

  • The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. – F. E. Smith

 

  • Fear can keep a man out of danger but courage only can support him in it. – Thomas Fuller

 

  • Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. – C. JoyBell C.

 

  • A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. – Jean Paul

 

  • I am proud of how brave I have been. I am proud of how brave I am being. I am doing my best and I know that is enough. – Cassie Mendoza-Jones

 

  • Fight till the last gasp. – William Shakespeare

 

  • Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once. – William Shakespeare

 

  • It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. – J. K. Rowling

 

  • Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon

 

  • If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. – Seth Godin

 

  • Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. – Herodotus

 

  • Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. – Michel de Montaigne

 

  • In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. – Sallust

 

  • One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. – Henry Ford

 

  • It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. – Atticus Finch

 

  • Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you. – El Cordobes

 

  • It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – E.E. Cummings

 

  • Be proud of how brave you have been, taking a risk and following your dreams. – Cassie Mendoza-Jones