A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Samuel Johnson

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Avail Bravery Nothing Place

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

Gail Tsukiyama

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Clarence Darrow

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

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

Amit Ray

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

It takes bravery to be a young mom, and it does take bravery to let the world watch.

Jamie Lynn Spears

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

Hank Green

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Wendell Phillips

Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.

Ovid

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

George Eliot

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

Stuart Wilde

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

Terry Pratchett

Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.