David Gregory Quotes

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

He has the manners of a pirate and the courage of a governess.

I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Calculation never made a hero.