Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.
