Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
It is going to take a very brave man to love me.
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr. , Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup. ]
I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.
Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make. "
Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side
Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.
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.
There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power. . . the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.
Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.