Bravery Quotes

"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day."

- Dylan Thomas

"Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light."

- Dylan Thomas

"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."

- Homer

"Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me."

- Marlee Matlin

"Here in America we are descended from revolutionists and rebels—men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

- Nelson Mandela

"If you lay violent hands on me, you’ll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stilpo."

- Zeno of Citium

"I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it."

- Epictetus

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- George O'Keeffe

"IT IS NOT DEATH THAT A MAN SHOULD FEAR, BUT HE SHOULD FEAR NEVER BEGINNING TO LIVE."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

- Thomas Jefferson

"A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers, The banner of the Western land. The emblem of the brave and true."

- John Philip Sousa

"A nation thrills, a nation bleeds, A nation follows where it leads, And every man is proud to yield His life upon a crimson field For Betsy's battle flag."

- Minna Irving

"'Twas red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fit in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know."

- Julia Ward Howe

"O beautiful banner all splendid with stars, That in the breeze is flying, Proud emblem of the free! My heart and hand salute you, Dear flag of liberty. From ocean to ocean you brighten our land, O'er prairie, forest, mountain, Superb against the sky. Oh flag for which men labor! Oh flag for which men die!"

- Homer H. Harbour and Birdsall Otis Edey

"Shoot if you must, this old grey head, But spare your country's flag," she said."

- John Greenleaf Whittier

"I’d rather die like a man, than live like a coward."

- Tupac Shakur

"The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up."

- Brené Brown

"I now see that owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."

- Brené Brown

"Choosing to live and love with our whole hearts is an act of defiance."

- Brené Brown

"If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability."

- Brené Brown

"When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again’—my gut reaction is, ‘What a badass.’"

- Brené Brown

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."

- Brené Brown

"The wholehearted have the courage to be imperfect."

- Brené Brown

"The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time."

- Brené Brown

"Choosing authenticity means cultivating the courage to be imperfect, to set boundaries, and to allow ourselves to be vulnerable."

- Brené Brown

"Sometimes the bravest thing is resting without guilt and starting again next week."

- Unknown