Top 1200 Acts Of Bravery Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

Whatever you think of Edward Snowden, it took bravery to do what he did.

Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

I might hatch an idea in my comfort zone, but to bring it to reality requires bravery.

It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again. But that doesn't mean that there's some kind of massive terrorist threat.

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

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

The bravery and pioneering of early Hollywood was absolutely incredible.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

My view is that homosexual acts - not homosexuality, but homosexual acts - are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural-law-based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that... They don't comport with natural law.

I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.'

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: - let such a one be dismissed!

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

I hope for continued bravery and risk-taking for all theatremakers in 2018 and beyond.

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

Years ago nudity was not done in the United States. But during that late 1950s era in Vegas it began at the Tropicana, and spread to the other venues. Now the showgirls are going away again and Cirque du Soleil, the magic acts and the animal acts reign in Las Vegas. But I don't think you'll completely lose the boobie shows.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'