Quotes and Sayings About Brave
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I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
-- George Washington -
My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.
-- George Washington -
Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.
-- George Washington -
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
-- Georges Duhamel -
Brave? Or stupid?" Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.
-- Gerald Morris -
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
-- Ginnifer Goodwin -
There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that Ive gone through.
-- Gloria Estefan -
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.
-- Grace Jones -
I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.
-- Greer Garson -
One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.
-- Gunter Grass -
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.
-- Hank Aaron -
To this day, whenever I'm in Milwaukee, which is often, I'm reminded that the people there still haven't gotten over the Braves leaving ... If it helps, they should know the players haven't either.
-- Hank Aaron -
I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.
-- Hank Aaron -
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
Only the brave and adventuresome find God, never the timid.
-- Harold Klemp -
But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.
-- Harold S. Kushner -
It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.
-- Harriet Lerner -
And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?
-- Harry Chapin -
Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter.
-- Hartley Coleridge -
Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.
-- Haruki Murakami -
In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.
-- Heath Ledger -
That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.
-- Helen H. Gardener -
It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.
-- Helen Hunt -
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
-- Helen Keller -
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
