Brave Quotations | Page 4

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.

For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.

Wear them, they will make you brave.

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

What is the 'noble cause' that brave Americans are dying for?

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Those who are truly brave, shall never live in fear.

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

One part brave, three parts fool!

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

The writer has to be brave, I think.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.

No need to feel brave or confident; just behave that way.

We should not deny this, we should be brave enough to talk about it.

We clearly suffered for it. I am proud of her for being so brave and finishing the program.

Too many of our brave men and women, our heroes, are falling through the cracks,

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the grave.

While the president has now given four speeches ... the American public, the Iraqi people and our brave troops still don't have any clarity about the U.S. military mission in Iraq.

To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.

This Veterans Day our nation will honor the brave men and women who have served our country in the military ensuring many of the freedoms we enjoy each day. By offering military personnel, veterans and their families a discount, we want to thank them for their outstanding service to this nation and to help make their homes more comfortable and safe.

What Ive learned the most through this, ... is how resilient Maggie is and how brave she is.

We gather here today to honor and remember a brave young man.

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.

You have to be brave to go make fun of the head man in front of everyone.

What happened very quickly was a move away from the bravery of the kids fighting.

We tried to recognize mismatches. We did a better job on (Jesse) Brave Rock. We had to try to double him and keep the ball out of his hands.

We will stay in the fight until we have achieved . . . the victory our brave troops have fought for.

we are brave Taiwanese, hard-working Taiwanese, and dignified Taiwanese.

We are brave enough to have all areas discussed. Students will be informed and not indoctrinated.

Those who killed Rosemary Nelson did so because they thought it would destroy the Good Friday agreement, ... (She was) a brave woman who stood up for what she believed in.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.

Wars are not fought on the training ground, nor can they be covered from the television studio. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of both these brave men.

Brave shoemakers, all gentlemen of the gentle craft.

Brave Iraqi soldiers and civilians risked their lives to participate in their fledgling democracy, in some ways not unlike brave Americans did more than 200 years ago. Iraqis went to the polls despite the warning of violence and they continued to vote even when violence occurred.

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. For now you are traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be.

Early season bravery has caused some of the most traumatic injuries I've seen in 21 years in the ski business. Injuries in the first part of the season occur at both ends of the spectrum. Beginners often get hurt because they don't know how to fall or they are in over their heads. Better riders get hurt because they are over confident and push their limits to far.

during a time when in fact we had a policy that was losing. And the members of Congress were interestingly silent and absent in asking tough questions. As long as I'm a United States senator, I will do everything I can to ensure that we have a policy worthy of these brave young men and women who are sacrificing their lives and doing the things that they do for this country. I don't think that policy is there today.

The revolutions of 1989, ... were made possible by the commitment of brave men and women inspired by a different and ultimately more profound and powerful vision: the vision of man as a creature of intelligence and free will, immersed in a mystery which transcends his own being and endowed with the ability to reflect and the ability to choose, and thus capable of wisdom and virtue.

It was the only show that focused on sports betting, and it was a pretty brave move because no one had put sports betting out for mass audiences before. It was kind of frowned upon. But it paid off for the exposure.

It was unbelievable how brave those guys were. He's definitely one of my heroes. He was such a fierce competitor.

It was a brave decision to keep her in training this season but Kieren Fallon said last year that he thought she might just win a Group One and maybe we can make that come true now.

These brave family members are here today to ask the House to cede to Senate provisions and pass this bill before Congress returns home for Christmas recess, ... It's not a lot to ask and it has to happen.

The song is Texas having a fresh look at that Giorgio Moroder vibe of uplifting electronic pop but with sexy slow vocals. I wanted to combine modern sounds with a real Billie Holliday kind of feel. When I was growing up my dad would be away at sea and my Mum, my sister and I would be at home blasting disco and Abba alongside her old Billie Holliday albums. I knew the spirit I wanted. I knew I could emulate that Billie Holliday sensibility - not the framed icon with the beautiful flower in her hair, but the slightly dark woman on the edge, this tortured brave singer who struggled around this merciless music circuit. It's a bit of a homage from my heart.

So people didn't want to destroy themselves, and they didn't; and so only a very few brave hearts, not always the brightest or the sharpest knives in the drawer, stepped forward and did the best they could to bring about change and to make known how bad the situation was - the social situation, the legal situation, the employment situation, and so on - for homosexuals.

Ryan is the type of person who worries about people worrying about him. He's just been so unbelievably brave and positive throughout the whole situation.

Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase: 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' Well - look at Jeannette Rankin, ... Probably a hundred men in Congress would have liked to do what she did. Not one of them had the courage to do it. The Gazette entirely disagrees with the wisdom of her position. But, Lord, it was a brave thing!

Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region and we cannot thank or pay the brave rescue workers enough for the lives they've already saved, ... But we cannot ignore how the federal government has failed to protect the health and safety of its citizens.

Questions about my record are clearly an attempt to distract attention from the real issue, which is that our brave men and women in uniform are dying and being injured every day in the middle of a civil war that can be resolved only by the Iraqis themselves.

Our duty today, the duty of all of us is to continue the work that I started with my late partner Yitzhak Rabin, to protect the peace of the brave and to continue and complete that work,

Oh brave new world, where mothers don't ask their children how their day was. Facebook and Twitter answered for them.

Admiral Stockdale challenged the human limits of moral courage, physical endurance and intellectual bravery, emerging victorious as a legendary beacon for all to follow,

A dull man sits around and watches as the world is burning.An average man attempts to save his propert. A honorable man tries to save his neighbors.

Companies will still deal with the Chinese in the future. They are big players, and it's a brave player who refuses to deal with them. But companies and brokers may demand deals be confirmed all the way up the line.

Despite three rounds of Iraqi elections, 845 brave young Americans died in Iraq in 2005, only 3 fewer than the 848 lost in 2004. Also 30,000 to 100,000 innocent Iraqis have been killed in the wake of the U.S. invasion. George Bush and Dick Cheney are personally responsible for each of those deaths, because they deliberately lied to Congress and the American people to start this disastrous and never-ending war.

And there is certainly nothing courageous about creating a Brave New definition of marriage that will lead to more innocent children being placed in homosexual households that are fatherless or motherless by design--and schools teaching homosexual 'marriage' as normal and just another lifestyle choice.

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his canvas dry.

April 7 is the day after my son's birthday. This hits home, especially if you're raising kids of your own. I could only imagine what this brave girl's family is going through.

Ashley Smith earned this reward because her brave actions led directly to the apprehension of Brian Nichols, ... We are all proud of the quick law enforcement effort that peacefully resolved this crisis following her 9-1-1 call.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.

As one of his aides once said, he has antifreeze in his blood... He is a very cool character, and when you judge him by his public performances you would think that everything is hunky-dory and going great. But an analytical assessment of the situation shows he is in trouble, despite the brave face that he's putting on.

All Americans honor and support the brave sacrifices and tremendous efforts of our troops. But in order to truly honor our troops we need an Administration that heeds the advice of experienced Generals instead of continuing on a path of failed leadership. Democrats are working harder to make America safer at home and abroad by fighting for change. Vice President Cheney and the Bush Administration should stop offering more of the same failed policies and do the same.

A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man.

This is not an alternative business model, this is not a brave new day. This is good old-fashioned defense. This is a defensive management of a business in decline.

This is the celebration of a few brave and courageous souls, men and women, whose personal sacrifice and commitment to justice was free of malice, greed and self-promotion.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities