The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
Be brave, be bold, be free.
You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show, especially at first. But when the time of flowers has passed, what as to the fruit?
I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing. . . On 911, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.
True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
Half of bravery is perspective.
Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.