Top 1200 Brave Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

If I want to be brave enough to stand up and make my opinions count, I will have to take the punches and roll with it.

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

I knew nothing about the industry, I didn't go to fashion school, but I was brave enough to do things in a different way.

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing.

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

You've got to admire my courage going into a picture where the dog is a star. It takes a brave man to play opposite one.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, and brave.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

I need to put myself out in the world and be brave and be uncomfortable. When I do, it means I can enjoy life so much more.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges

I have a theory about American men -- I think they think women are boys who don't know how to throw a ball very well. American women are forced into the role of being men without penises, of being men who haven't quite been able to make it. If women don't want to be pussycats, then they get forced into the role of being almost as good as men. Which is lousy.

If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

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

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

Even through the darkest phase Be it thick or thin Always someone marches brave Here beneath my skin

Acting is very sacred. Anyone who stands in front of a crew with the camera recording their emotions is a brave individual.

I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.

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

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave.

The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.

I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.