God helps the brave. [ Schiller ]
Tis more brave
To live, than to die. [ Lord Lytton ]
Fortune favors the brave. [ Virgil ]
The combat deepens. On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory, or the grave! [ Campbell ]
Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul. [ Lady Blessington ]
Brave men do not boast nor bluster,
Deeds, not words, speak for such. [ Rivarol ]
Brave actions never want a trumpet. [ Proverb ]
'Tis late before the brave despair. [ Thomson ]
Necessity makes even cowards brave. [ Proverb ]
The brave only know how to forgive. [ Sterne ]
A brave retreat is a brave exploit. [ Proverb ]
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead. [ Theodore O'Hara ]
The brave find a home in every land. [ Ovid ]
It is late before the brave despair. [ Thomson ]
To form a brave man, educate boldly. [ Richter ]
None but the brave deserves the fair. [ Dryden ]
The brave are parsimonious of threats. [ Kossuth ]
A brave man may fall but cannot yield.
The brave man may yield to braver man.
It is not too late tomorrow to be brave
If honor bids. [ Armstrong ]
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. [ Longfellow ]
Strike, brave boys, and take your turns. [ William Shakespeare ]
Brave men are brave from the very first. [ Corneille ]
What's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us. [ William Shakespeare ]
Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves;
There is a nobleness of mind that heals
Wounds beyond salves. [ Cartwright ]
Generous as brave.
Affection, kindness, and the sweet office
Of love and duty, were to him as needful
As his daily bread. [ Rogers ]
A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]
Chase brave employments with a naked sword
Throughout the world. [ Herbert ]
None but the brave and beautiful can love. [ Bailey ]
A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion. [ George Herbert ]
Death is but what the haughty brave,
The weak must bear, the wretch must crave. [ Byron ]
The brave love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]
Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind. [ Proverb ]
Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men. [ Napoleon I ]
Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden. [ Pascal ]
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. [ Johnson ]
The brave man thinks of himself last of all. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
High minds, of native pride and force.
Most deeply feel thy pangs. Remorse!
Fear, for their scourge, mean villains have,
Thou art the torturer of the brave! [ Scott ]
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. [ Pope ]
A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave:
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave. [ Pope ]
Think not ambition wise, because it is brave. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. [ Homer ]
Brave as lions in peace, timid as deer in war.
It is brave scrambling at the rich man's dole. [ Proverb ]
When all the blandishments of life are gone,
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. [ Dr. Sewell ]
We must be brief when traitors brave the field. [ William Shakespeare ]
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. [ Pope ]
A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. [ Alex. Smith ]
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]
Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round
Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make
The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly
Upon its path--the Lord of Life alone
Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on. [ Lewis Morris ]
How guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great! [ Dr. Johnson ]
Brave men ought not to be cast down by adversity. [ Silius Italicus ]
One destined period men in common have,
The great, the base, the coward, and the brave.
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. [ Lansdowne ]
Women commiserate the brave, and men the beautiful. [ Landor ]
Look on the bee upon the wing among flowers;
How brave, how bright his life! then mark him hiv'd,
Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
Lie deep in cities as in drifts. [ Bailey ]
God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers
Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers. [ Herbert ]
God is the brave man's hope and not the coward's excuse. [ Plutarch ]
There is no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand. [ Shakespeare ]
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave. [ Lowell ]
Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward. [ Seneca ]
Worth begets in base minds envy, but in brave souls emulation. [ Proverb ]
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. [ Catherine of Russia ]
Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still more. [ Lemesles ]
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. [ Aristotle ]
We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. [ Haliburton ]
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]
He is ignoble that disgraces his brave ancestors by a vicious life. [ Proverb ]
Some have been thought brave, because they were afraid to run away. [ Proverb ]
In a word, to be a fine gentleman is to be a generous and brave man. [ Steele ]
A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods. [ Seneca ]
Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [ Seneca ]
The real heroes of this war are the great, brave, patient, nameless people. [ Whitelaw Reid ]
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul. [ Cicero ]
Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. [ Sterne ]
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, is emulation in the learned or brave. [ Pope ]
Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave. [ Joseph Napoleon ]
Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune, just as brave soldiers do at wars. [ Seneca ]
To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]
The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do. [ Byron ]
The vulgar refuse or crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Mallet ]
O Fortune, that enviest the brave, what unequal rewards thou bestowest on the righteous! [ Seneca ]
Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Thomson ]
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. [ Dryden ]
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [ Arndt ]
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who, can endure a wretched life. [ Martial ]
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. [ Caesar ]
Brave is the lion-vanquisher, brave is the world-subduer, but braver he who has subdued himself. [ J. G. Herder ]
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. [ Colton ]
He that spends to his proportion is as brave as a prince, and a prince exceeding that is a prodigal. [ Proverb ]
A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand enemies. [ Scipio ]
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shining treasures of a soul resolved and brave. [ Dryden ]
It is vain for the coward to fly; death follows close behind; it is by defying it that the brave escape. [ Voltaire ]
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. [ Emerson ]
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil, nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. [ Cicero ]
Some are brave men one day and cowards another, as great captains have often told me, from their own experience and observation. [ Sir W. Temple ]
No man can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good. [ Cicero ]
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now. [ J. C. Hare ]
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury: for he has it then in his power to make himself his superior to the other by forgiveness. [ Drummond ]
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
O brave poets! keep back nothing, nor mix falsehood with the whole; look up Godward; speak the truth in worthy song from earnest soul; hold, in high poetic duty, truest truth the fairest beauty! [ Mrs. Browning ]
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]
Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter. [ Hartley Coleridge ]
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]
Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]