Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

“Choose well, thy choice is brief, and yet endless.”

— Kimball Lee

Follow thou thy choice.

— William C. Bryant

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of…

— Marie Colvin

“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…

— G.K. Chesterton

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they…

— Donald Trump

Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts.…

— James P. Gorman

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal…

— Charles Bukowski

As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's…

— Henry Howarth Bashford

But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado,…

— John Steinbeck

“He'd gotten this far on bravado and the time honored tradition of ignoring any inconvenient nagging thoughts, but it wasn't working so well now.”

— Michael Langlois

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the…

— Peter Blair Henry

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's…

— K. D. Lang

I wrote [Valley of Violence] entirely with James Ransone in mind. I get such a joy out of watching his performance and seeing people…

— Ti West

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides