Top 1200 Brave Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

We live in a world with men wanting to be brave. Not many will stand up and say, 'I don't feel right here.'

It's degrading or insulting to say somebody is a good person or has a soul. Each person has built this incredibly complex structure, and if you attribute it to a magical pearl in the middle of an oyster that makes you good, that's trivializing a person and keeps you from thinking of what's really happening.

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.

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

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

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

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

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

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

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 person who is app-dependent is always searching for the best app; and as soon as its routine has been executed, the person searches for the next app. A person who is app-enabled also uses apps frequently. But he or she is never limited by the current array of apps; apps will free the person to do what he or she wants to do, or needs to do, irrespective of the next application of the app. An app-enabled person can also put devices away, without feeling bereft.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

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.

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

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.

Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world.

What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person.

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

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

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

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

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.

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

It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men.

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.

It is important for all of us to show our support for the brave men and women in the United States military.

It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.

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.

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.

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