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  • The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

  • In times of distress strengthen your heart.

  • The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122
  • Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.

  • To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

  • I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

  • People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  • It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

    Courage   Bravery   Tasks  
    Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

    Friends   Fire   Safety  
  • Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

  • One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

    "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.
  • Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  • Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

    Men   Bravery   Greed  
  • Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  • Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

    Love   Courage   Fear  
  • The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

    Courage   Men   Class  
    "The Natural History of Pliny".
  • I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 05, 2009
  • It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

  • Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

    Courage   Fear   Cancer  
  • I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

  • Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

    Running   Fear   Bravery  
  • Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.

  • I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.

    "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.
  • It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

    Gail Tsukiyama (2008). “The Samurai's Garden: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan
  • The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.

  • Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

    Gratitude   Art   Wall  
    Maurice Maeterlinck (1905). “Old Fashioned Flowers: And Other Out-of-door Studies”
  • It's a brave new world.

  • Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

    Courage   Bravery   Nine  
  • It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

    Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.38, Harper Collins
  • I don't want to die without a few scars.

    Bravery   Want   Scar  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company
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