Top 447 Bravery Quotes & Sayings

Bravery is the engine of change.

Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.

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.

There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.

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

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

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

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

There is no tenderness without bravery.

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

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this - It's not about not being scared - it's about being scared and doing it anyway - that's bravery.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

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

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

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

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.

Bravery is the solution to regret.

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.

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

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.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Bravery hides in amazing places.

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

I don’t feel brave, especially not right now. (Delphine) That’s what bravery is, especially for a woman not used to having emotions. When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don’t let it stop you, that is true courage. There’s never been bravery without fear. Just as there’s no love without hate. (M'Adoc)

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

You can't have bravery without fear...

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

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

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

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

Some people worry about our federal deficit, but I, I worry about our bravery deficit. Our economy, our society - we're just losing out because we're not raising our girls to be brave. The bravery deficit is why women are underrepresented in STEM, in C-suites, in boardrooms, in Congress, and pretty much everywhere you look.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

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

Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.

Half of bravery is perspective.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

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.

Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery... Terrain is often of more value than bravery... Bravery is of more value than numbers.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.