170 Brave Man Quotes

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Famous Brave Man Quotes

A brave man will face a situation no matter how dreadful. — Filipino Proverbs

He who is brave is free. — Seneca The Elder

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. — Euripides

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid. - George R. R. Martin

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid. — George R. R. Martin

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. — Billy Graham

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. — Ernst Moritz Arndt

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. — G. K. Chesterton

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. — Socrates

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears. — Nelson Mandela

bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar Bradley

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. — Joseph Stalin

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things. - Jacques Maritain

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things. — Jacques Maritain

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. — Thucydides

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. — Seneca The Elder

Short Brave Man Quotes

  • The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. — Seneca
  • A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. — English Proverbs
  • It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved. — Gwendolyn Brooks
  • One man with courage makes a majority. — Andrew Jackson
  • A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. — Lao Tzu
  • Fortune and love favor the brave. — Ovid
  • Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts. — Horace
  • The brave find a home in every land. — Ovid
  • The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. — Meg Cabot
  • To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena

Top 10 Brave Man Quotes

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? — Hunter S. Thompson

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. — Thomas Paine

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. — Mark Twain

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. — Archilochus

Pity the brave man, if caught by two weaklings — Greek Proverbs

No man is brave in the presence of a crying woman. — Filipino Proverbs

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out. — Bob Uecker

The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round. — Som Nath Sharma

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse. — Plutarch

Brave Man Image Quotes

Brave man quote Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

How To Be Brave Quotes

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. — Mary Tyler Moore

Be brave enough to take risks and follow your dreams, no matter how hard they may seem. — Joe Rogan

Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul. — Gary Haugen

Brave man quote Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Kero and Rollo stood over it, slick with blood, both holding knives. ‘Kero, you came? Why?’ asked Naif. ‘Maybe I just needed someone to show me how to be brave enough,’ he replied with a hint of a dangerous grin. — Marianne de Pierres

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. — Adolf Galland

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along. — Douglas Pagels

Brave man quote Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. — Daisaku Ikeda

We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because that's how I am. The information comes out because I am brave enough to allow it. I'm not brave as a human being in everyday life. I'm brave when I'm acting. — Charlotte Rampling

You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave. — Nikita Koloff

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different. — Paulo Coelho

Brave Person Quotes

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. — Charles Dickens

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. — Joseph Brant

Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. — Natalie Angier

Brave man quote The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life what I wanted to die.
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life what I wanted to die.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. — Thomas Carlyle

But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend. — Elizabeth Goudge

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. — Henry Rollins

Brave man quote Be brave enough to hold on to the hope that life will be beautiful again.
Be brave enough to hold on to the hope that life will be beautiful again.

It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak. — Mellody Hobson

The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all. — Robert Kiyosaki

I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen. — Eva Green

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone. — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Courageous Man Quotes

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Andre Gide

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. — Albert Einstein

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. — John F. Kennedy

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. — Aristotle

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. - Umberto Eco

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. — Umberto Eco

Brave man quote If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. — Carlos Castaneda

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. — Haile Selassie

The sun will stand as your best man And whistle When you have found the courage To marry forgiveness When you have found the courage to marry Love. — Hafez

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. — T. S. Eliot

Brave Heart Quotes

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Thomas Paine

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Leonardo da Vinci

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave. — Ronald Reagan

Brave man quote The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.

There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it — William Wallace

Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself. — Shirley Temple

Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I — William Wallace

Brave man quote Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart. — Sakyong Mipham

Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. — Hayao Miyazaki

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes. — Robert the Bruce

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Brave One Quotes

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander. — Alexander The Great

You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. — Cara Delevingne

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. — Dante Alighieri

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. - Aldous Huxley

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. — Aldous Huxley

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. — Victor Cherbuliez

I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet. — Robert Gibbs

Brave man quote A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. — Charles Horton Cooley

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! - Mel Gibson

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! — Mel Gibson

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. — Jules Verne

Brave Face Quotes

To be brave is not to have no fear, but to face your fear and overcome it. — Alexei Navalny

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live. — Neil Marcus

Brave man quote If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. — Morihei Ueshiba

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties. — Oscar Romero

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers. — Aristotle

Brave man quote The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.

. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing. — Grenville Kleiser

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger. — Jo Baer

Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life. — Charlie Chaplin

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears. — Eli Roth

Strong Man Quotes

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. — John C. Maxwell

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing. — Assata Shakur

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. — Mark Twain

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman. — Benito Mussolini

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! — Leon Trotsky

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman. — T. D. Jakes

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. — John Steinbeck

Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language. — Kim Jong Il

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone — Katharine Hepburn

Bravery Quotes

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. — Alexander Hamilton

Do the right thing because it is right. - Immanuel Kant

Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. — Maya Angelou

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. - J. R. R. Tolkien

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. — J. R. R. Tolkien

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings. — Chogyam Trungpa

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible. — Doug Larson

One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal. — Tipu Sultan

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. — J. K. Rowling

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. — Queen Elizabeth II

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. — Morihei Ueshiba

Brave And Strong Quotes

Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. — Hildegard of Bingen

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it. — William Faulkner

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet. — Michael J. Sullivan

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed. — American Indian Proverbs

I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. — Cheryl Strayed

The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself up, learn as much as you can from the experience and get on with the next challenge...The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all. — Richard Branson

Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose. — Demi Lovato

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave. — George Macdonald

I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on. — Audra McDonald

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More Brave Man Quotes

In life I learned that you should not brag, until you've done it And even worse than that.. Could you do it again?? That's why I'm always humble, humbleness is a brave man's obligation, since he knows what it takes to accomplish a great deed — Renzo Gracie

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. — A. Philip Randolph

The work these brave men and women do is extremely important, not only to our nation but to all the countries that our troops are stationed at around the world. I am grateful to the USO for having us and to all the troops who shared their day with us. — Zakk Wylde

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela's Confidence to InspireNelson Mandela

No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms." — John Brown

India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword — Oscar Wilde

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. — Carter G. Woodson

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. — Edgar Allan Poe

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so. — John F. Kennedy

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. — Sun Tzu

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them. — Ernest Hemingway

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward. — Chief Joseph

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey. — John Mason Brown

[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave? — Mike Pence

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so. — John F. Kennedy

Uncertainty as to our relationship to God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed, and gives way. He can do nothing for God. — Horatius Bonar

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear. — Confucius

If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha. — Sam Manekshaw

Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect. — B. R. Ambedkar

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. — Victor Hugo

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death. — Sun Tzu

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. — George S. Patton

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. — Euripides

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