Courageous Acts Quotes

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

Heroism in a bad cause.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

I really love Evel Knievel, what he stood for.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

......And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means

God himself favors the brave.

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

No hero is above fear.