These bravery quotes will inspire you. Bravery, the quality or state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging bravery quotes, bravery sayings, and bravery proverbs.
Best Bravery Quotes
- “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
- “Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” ~ Omar N. Bradley
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” ~ Amelia Earhart
- “Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, ‘I have fallen, but I will get up.'” ~ Maya Angelou
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“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “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
- “Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid” ~ Robert Liparulo
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“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
- “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
- “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” ~ Mark Twain
- “We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” ~ Helen Keller
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.” ~ Erica Jong
- “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” ~ Ruth Gordon
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“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.” ~ Enos Mills
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” ~ Maya Angelou
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“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can’t see it all.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug.” ~ Jonathan Bowden
- “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” ~ Billy Graham
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“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin
- “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” ~ George S. Patton
- “If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.” ~ George S. Patton
- “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore
- “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” ~ Muhammad Ali , Bravery quotes about life
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” ~ Aristotle
- “God himself favors the brave.” ~ Ovid
- “It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.” ~ Georges Bernanos , Fear bravery quotes
- “Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.” ~ Morihei Ueshiba
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“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.” ~ John Gay
- “Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.” ~ Charles Dickens
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“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.” ~ Morihei Ueshiba
- “The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” ~ Patrick Henry , Strong & bravery quotes
- “Courage is found in unlikely places.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.” ~ Andre Agassi
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“Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Brave men are brave from the very first.
[Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]” ~ Pierre Corneille - “Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.” ~ Walter Knott
- “A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.” ~ James A. Garfield
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“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
[Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]” ~ Martial - “Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).” ~ Horace
- “True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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“The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.” ~ Thomas B. Macaulay
- “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.]” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero - “When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.” ~ Aristotle
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“Come on, somebody be brave.” ~ Dave Gould
- “March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.” ~ Euripides
- “Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.” ~ Alan Alda
- “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.” ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
