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Bravery

«Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.»
«The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly»
Author: Corra Harris | About: Bravery | Keywords: accordingly, profess
«History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.»
Author: Edmund Morris | About: Bravery, History
«The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from»
«There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.»
Author: John Wainwright | About: Bravery | Keywords: bravery, degrees
«The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.»
Author: Thucydides | About: Bravery | Keywords: bravest, notwithstanding
«Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.»
«The courage and bravery of our young men and women fighting overseas continues to inspire all of us, and indeed inspire the free world and those yearning for freedom.»
«Fight till the last gasp.»
«Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Bravery | Keywords: breasts, pale

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