Top 1200 Brave Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

He's six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you'd say he has everything.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

I think there is a collective unconsciousness, or some sort of consciousness, that you can tap into if you're open and brave enough to let everything go and be part of that.

Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.

Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?

Christianity is the gayest religion, you know. Its core commandment to men is to form a deep lifelong partnership with ANOTHER MAN. It demands real man-on-man, man-on-Jesus love action, no holds barred. It's the most homophilic religion in the universe.

A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

I have nothing to hide. So when I spoke about my lip job, a lot of people called me brave for coming out.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"

The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.

Women who have been with man after man after man after man choose to become a lesbian later in life. Gay men, it doesn't work so much that way.

I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No difference. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and getting hurt. The man who is yellow refuses to face up to what he's got to face. The hero is more disciplined and he fights those feelings off and he does what he has to do. But they both feel the same, the hero and the coward. People who watch you judge you on what you do, not how you fee.

You have to make sure you lead from the front and put a brave face on it during the tough times to bring people with you and get out of it.

I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

I was drawn to the role of Deena in the 'Fear Street' trilogy because she is incredibly passionate, strong, resilient, and brave.

One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Anyone who's making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who's brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.