Definition of bravery

"bravery" in the noun sense

1. courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness

a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear

2. fearlessness, bravery

feeling no fear

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Quotations for bravery

God helps the brave. [ Schiller ]

Tis more brave
To live, than to die. [ Lord Lytton ]

Fortune favors the brave. [ Virgil ]

General Taylor never surrenders. [ Thos. L. Crittenden ]

Bravery is often too sharp a spur. [ Kossuth ]

Brave men do not boast nor bluster,
Deeds, not words, speak for such. [ Rivarol ]

'Tis late before the brave despair. [ Thomson ]

The brave find a home in every land. [ Ovid ]

None but the brave deserves the fair. [ Dryden ]

The best hearts are ever the bravest. [ Sterne ]

The brave are parsimonious of threats. [ Kossuth ]

A brave man may fall but cannot yield.

The brave man may yield to braver man.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I. [ Scott ]

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

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 ]

The brave love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]

The bravest men are subject most to chance. [ Dryden ]

Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden. [ Pascal ]

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice. [ Segur ]

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. [ Smollett ]

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave:
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave. [ Pope ]

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. [ Homer ]

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. [ Alex. Smith ]

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. [ Victor Hugo ]

Women commiserate the brave, and men the beautiful. [ Landor ]

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardies. [ Daniel ]

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. [ Aristotle ]

Patience, the second bravery of man, is perhaps greater than the first. [ Antonio de Solis ]

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. [ William Shakespeare ]

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul. [ Cicero ]

What will not woman, gentle woman, dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up? [ Southey ]

He is not worthy of the honeycomb That shuns the hive because the bees have stings. [ William Shakespeare ]

A true knight is fuller of gay bravery in the midst than in the beginning of danger. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do. [ Byron ]

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. [ Juvenal ]

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. [ Wendell Phillips ]

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 ]

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field. [ Lowell ]

True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if necessary, the affront, with coldness. [ Francis la None ]

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. [ George Eliot ]

Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms - oftenest. God bless her! - in female breasts. [ Dickens ]

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil, nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. [ Cicero ]

True bravery is shown by performing, without witnesses, what one might be capable of doing before all the world. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Fight valiantly today; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality, of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savage. [ Chatfield ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]

bravery in Scrabble®

The word bravery is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters bravery:

BRAVERY
(110 = 60 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word bravery

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In bravery

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bravery in Words With Friends™

The word bravery is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters bravery:

BRAVERY
(119 = 84 + 35)
BRAVERY
(119 = 84 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

bravery

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word bravery

BRAVERY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In bravery

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Words within the letters of bravery

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