A Quote by Robertson Davies

I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.

Robertson Davies

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Robertson Davies
Canadian - Novelist
August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995

You need bravery because in the picture of soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.

Amit Ray

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

George Eliot

The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.

Francois de la Noue

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Sakyong Mipham

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Audie Murphy

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Gail Tsukiyama

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

Richard Gere

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Aristotle

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Rabindranath Tagore

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.

James Jones

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

Stuart Wilde

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