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Fortune favours the daring. ~ Virgil

Bravery is strength in the face of fear. It is similar to courage.

Quotes

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  • A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible.
  • All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.
  • Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
  • The truly brave,
    When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
    Are touched with a desire to shield and save:—
    A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods
    Are they—now furious as the sweeping wave,
    Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods
    The rugged tree unto the summer wind,
    Compassion breathes along the savage mind.
  • Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.
    • No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
    • Cicero, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 2.
  • It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.
    • Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 11.
  • Fortem Posce Animum
    Pray for God to give you a Brave Soul
    • Crampton Family Motto (1248)
  • The god-like hero sate
    On his imperial throne:
    His valiant peers were placed around,
    Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
    (So should desert in arms be crowned).
    The lovely Thais, by his side,
    Sate like a blooming Eastern bride
    In flower of youth and beauty's pride.
    Happy, happy, happy pair!
    None but the brave,
    None but the brave,
    None but the brave deserve the fair.
  • Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus
    • So live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
    • Horace, Book II, Satire II, Line 135-136 (trans. E. C. Wickham)
  • Some of the bravest political work in this country and around the world has happened because people often too young to grasp their own mortality stick their necks out. The job of the rest of us is to rise to the occasion of their bravery. The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the future.
    • Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz “Nine Suggestions For Radicals, or Lessons From the Gulf War” in The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
  • Rewa was brave. At least, she was thick-witted enough to be able to ignore personal danger to a great extent.
  • There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
    A man who's not afraid to say his say,
    Though a whole town's against him.
  • Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
    Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.
    • In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
    • Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), XI. 56. 15.
  • — How can a man be brave when he's afraid ?
    — It is the only time a man can be brave.
  • Arya watched them die and said nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? ... There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones.
  • 'Tis more brave
    To live, than to die.
    • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto VI, Stanza 11.
  • I'm not a brave man. My self-image is of a very small and weak person. In point of fact, I'm almost six feet, and solidly built. But I was a late bloomer. I spent those formative early high-school years as a pudgy little science whimp. I'm still scared of big men with deep voices.
  • Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
    From its firm base as soon as I.
  • He did look far
    Into the service of the time, and was
    Discipled of the bravest; he lasted long;
    But on us both did haggish age steal on
    And wore us out of act.
  • Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignores ad desperationem formidine properare.
    • The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
    • Tacitus, Annales (AD 117), II. 46.
  • In the ebb and flow of battle there are usually only brief flashes of bravery before the brave become the dead.
  • Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

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Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 82-83.
  • Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Länder
    Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.
    • The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
    • Ernst Moritz Arndt, Lehre an den Menschen, 5.
  • Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,
    Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;
    Wer hohes Muths sich rühmen kann
    Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.
    • Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone
      As when the Organ's music rolls;
      No gold rewards, but song alone,
      The deeds of great and noble souls.
    • G. A. Bürger, Lied von Braven Mann.
  • How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
    By all their country's wishes blest!
    • William Collins, Ode written in 1746. Authorship disputed. Found in the Oratorio, Alfred the Great, altered from Alfred, a Masque, presented Aug. 1, 1740. Written by Thompson and Mallet.
  • Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.
  • Toll for the brave!
    The brave that are no more.
  • The brave man seeks not popular applause,
    Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
    Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,
    Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
    • John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book III, line 2,015. (1700)
  • Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe:
    They took the spear, but left the shield.
    • Philip Freneau, To the Memory of the Brave Americans who fell at Eutaw Springs. (See also Scott—Marmion. Introd. to Canto III).
  • The brave
    Love mercy, and delight to save.
    • John Gay, Fable, The Lion, Tiger and Traveller, line 33.
  • O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
    Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
    Think each one of his children and his wife,
    His home, his parents, living yet or dead.
    For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,
    And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
    • Homer, The Iliad, Book XV, line 843. Bryant's translation.
  • Ardentem frigidus Ætnam insiluit.
    • In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
    • Horace, Ars Poetica.
  • Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
    Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles
    Urguentur ignotique longa
    Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
    • Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
    • Horace, Odes, Book IV, IX. 25.
  • True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
  • Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.
    • Fortune and love favour the brave.
    • Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book I. 608.
  • Omne solum forti patria est.
    • The brave find a home in every land.
    • Ovid, Fasti, I. 493.
  • Audentes deus ipse juvat.
    • God himself favors the brave.
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, X. 586.
  • Who combats bravely is not therefore brave:
    He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave.
  • Dem Muthigen hilft Gott.
  • Fortes fortuna adjuvat.
    • Fortune favors the brave.
    • Terence, Phormio, I. 4. 26. Quoted as a proverb.
  • Audentes fortuna juvat.
    • Fortune favours the daring.
    • Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), X, 284 and 458. Same phrase or idea found in Cicero, De Finibus, III. 4. and Tusc., II. 4. Claudian, Ad Probin. XLIII. 9. Ennius, Annales, V. 262. Livy, Book IV. 37;, Book VII. 29;, Book XXXIV. 37. Menander, In Stobæus Flor., VII, p. 206. Ed. 1709. Ovid, Metamorphoses. X. 11. 27. Pliny the Younger, Epistles, VI. 16. Tacitus, Annales, IV. 17.
    • Ur.lizz** ~ Fearless

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Virtues
Altruism • Asceticism • Beneficence • Benevolence • Bravery • Carefulness • Charity • Cheerfulness • Cleanliness • Common sense • Compassion • Constancy • Courage • Dignity • Diligence • Discretion • Earnestness • Faith • Fidelity • Forethought • Forgiveness • Friendship • Frugality • Gentleness • Goodness • Grace • Gratitude • Holiness • Honesty • Honor • Hope • Hospitality • Humanity • Humility • Integrity • Intelligence • Justice • Kindness • Love • Loyalty • Mercy • Moderation • Modesty • Optimism • Patience • Philanthropy • Piety • Prudence • Punctuality • Poverty • Purity • Self-control • Simplicity • Sincerity • Sobriety • Sympathy • Temperance • Tolerance

Vices
Aggression • Anger • Apathy • Arrogance • Bigotry • Contempt • Cowardice • Cruelty • Dishonesty • Drunkenness • Egotism • Envy • Evil speaking • Gluttony • Greed • Hatred • Hypocrisy • Idleness • Ignorance • Impatience • Impenitence • Ingratitude • Inhumanity • Intemperance • Jealousy • Laziness • Lust • Malice • Neglect • Obstinacy • Philistinism • Prejudice • Pretension • Pride • Recklessness • Self-righteousness • Selfishness • Superficiality • Tryphé • Unkindness • Usury • Vanity • Worldliness

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