Marianne Moore Quotes

Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

You've got to be brave.

I met lot of fighter pilots and heard their breathtaking experiences. They risk their lives for our well being. Not many understand the risks involved.

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

You cannot be brave without fear.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

We can't be brave without fear.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.