Brave Souls Quotes:

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

topic: Brave, Soul, Brave Souls

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Confidence, Leadership Courage, Moral Excellence

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

- Catherine the Great

topic: Courage, Inspirational Life, Bravery, Brave Souls

Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.

- Juliet Marillier

topic: Heart, Errors, Perfect, Brilliant Minds, Kind Heart

Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

- Juvenal

topic: Prayer, Lying, Believe, Length Of Life, Sound Body

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Bravery, Brave, Soul, Brave Souls

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

topic: Cities, Giving, Water, Brave Souls

Never was a miser a brave soul.

- George Herbert

topic: Bravery, Soul, Literature, Misers, Brave Souls

The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.

- Katie Melua

source: "Katie Melua: I want to start afresh". The Telegraph, September 15, 2007.

topic: Reality, Thinking, Brave, Musical Genius, Brave Souls

Dear Heavenly Father, I have a friend who stands as close as a brother, a brave soul. I have seen in him the heart of a warrior... He is gallant, loyal, and true, sacrificing his esteem, forfeiting his comfort, even spilling his blood. But, what color is his soul? My friend has a desperate need, and I have seen it. How can I be his accuser, condemning the one who has gladly poured out his blood in my stead? But shall I deny my witness? There is a darkness, a gnawing void behind those eyes of steel... Will you make him a knight, dressed in holy raiment, fit to take a seat at your table?

- Bryan Davis

topic: Brother, Father, Heart, Gallant, Accusers

Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we lost-those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them. We have also come to be ever mindful of the courage of those who grieve for them, and the light that still lives in their hearts.

- Rudy Giuliani

source: "Your World Today", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2006.

topic: Powerful, Heart, Grieving, September 11th, Remembrance For 9 11

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

- Thomas Hughes

source: Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.334, The Floating Press

topic: Kings, Lying, Hero, Brave Souls, Hero Worship

Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.

- Howard Frank Mosher

topic: Powerful, Struggle, Book, Brave Souls

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

- Joe Mantello

topic: Thinking, Brave, Soul, Brave Souls