Boyle Roche Quotes

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.

I like to do something I fear.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

The sea hates a coward.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?