Munshi Premchand Quotes

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

You can't test courage cautiously.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Choose bravery but not bravado.

There is always safety in valor.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

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

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Calculation never made a hero.

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

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

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

The world has no room for cowards.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.