Brave Quotes

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don’t want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious firefight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, “Fixing the wire, Sir.” I asked, “Isn’t that a […]

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem to be, or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, – His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

The future doesn’t belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave.