Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim O'Brien

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

Veronica Roth

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Veronica Roth

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Susanna Clarke

But, though French, she was also very brave...

Suzanne Collins

Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

Stephen King

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Tania Raymonde

You have to be brave and good things will come to you. I

Swami Vivekananda

Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!

Rupert Everett

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

Rumi

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.

Shirley Henderson

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

Richard Attenborough

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

Michelle Moran

I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.

Seth Godin

It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

Seth Godin

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us.

Neil Gaiman

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

W. S. Gilbert

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Steve Jones

Senator Thompson will host his first program this Memorial Day, focusing on America's brave servicemen and women.

Chipper Jones

I am turning my Golden Child Status over to Frenchie. He is going to be the next face for the Braves for a long time.

Tim Hudson

Buck called me to see if I was interested, and I told him yeah. Obviously, if everything's OK with the Braves from their end, I feel like it's an honor to play.

James Harvey Robinson

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Francis of Assisi

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

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

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

Gail Tsukiyama

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.

Scott Tucker

He's very patient. I wouldn't have enough patience to sit here all the time and do that and the bravery, it being open, everybody seeing him sitting here, seeing him do it.

He throws hard, but I saw where he's not throwing as hard and hitting more spots. That will make it more fun, I guess. He's pitching for the Braves in the playoffs, so he's obviously got some talent.

Roger Ebert

Gene was a lifelong friend and our professional competition only strengthened that bond, ... He showed great bravery in the months after his surgery, continuing to work as long as he could.

He's feeling better, but I think he's just being brave, you know? He's only 19.

Christiane Amanpour

No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, ... He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.

One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just made the brave move from another country, with perhaps little education or with a lot of education and degrees crossing over from another industry, all of these folks have opportunities in tourism. Young or old, part time or full time, it needs everyone.

I rode out to the lake at 7 a.m. and one brave (cold) fellow was fishing but had no luck yet.