Bravery Quotes

"My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines."

- TrieuThi Trinh

"I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity."

- Nadezhda Mandelstam

"We’re goin’ bowling. If we don’t come back, avenge our deaths."

- Homer Simpson

"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes."

- Euripides

"Any fool can climb rock, it takes a special fool to climb bad rock."

- Don Whillans

"I'd rather die with my boots on"

- Teddy Roosevelt (attributed)

"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real Sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl."

- Mevlana Rumi

"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers."

- George Armstrong Custer

"Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove that we showed up for it."

- Hannah Brencher

"This … is … SPARTA!"

- King Leonidas

"It goes, boys."

- Lynn Hill

"If your nerve deny you, go above your nerve."

- Emily Dickinson

"Today, climbing has shown me a courageous, strong side of myself, a beautiful bravery. Other days I’ve seen pitiful weakness. I’ve watched myself crawl, belly-flat, across a mountainous landscape of fear. Climbing has shown me that I am all of these things: strong and weak, brave and cowardly, both immune to and at the mercy of the fear of death, all at the same time. Risk is the fee to learn these lessons. The cost is not negotiable. It is a price that, for now, I pay gladly."

- Steve House

""He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.""

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"What in the blue blazes? Crazy hotrodder!"

- Radiator Springs Sheriff

"Ten pins won't scare the player with tenacity"

"Fear not the split; embrace the thrill of the comeback"

"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust."

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate—when honor scorns to compromise with death—that is heroism."

"Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer."

"The better part of valor is discretion."

"It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country."

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them."

"The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest."

- Unknown

"தயங்குறவர்கள் கை தட்டுகிறார்கள். துணிந்தவர் கை தட்டல் பெறுகிறார்கள்."

"நடுங்கி நடுங்கி வாழ்ந்தால் நாடி இல்லாதவன் கூட உன்னை நசுக்கி விடுவான்"

"இழப்பதற்கு எதுவும் இல்லை எனும் போதுதான் துணிச்சல் அதிகமாகிறது."