--- title: "8 Brave Quotes By Homer" description: "8 Brave quotes by Homer. Plus more from Homer and more Brave sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91e/homer-357_brave_fate-is-the-same-for-the-man-who-holds-b_179687.jpg" --- > [Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/fate-is-the-same-for-the-man-who-holds-back-the-same-if-he-fights/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91e/homer-357_brave_fate-is-the-same-for-the-man-who-holds-b_179687.jpg) > [No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/no-one-can-hurry-me-down-to-hades-before-my-time-but-if-a-man-s-hour/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/725/homer-357_born_no-one-can-hurry-me-down-to-hades-before_740014.png) > [Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/take-thou-thy-arms-and-come-with-me-for-we-must-quit-ourselves-like/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bc/homer-357_air_take-thou-thy-arms-and-come-with-me-for_794798.jpg) > [No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/no-man-or-woman-born-coward-or-brave-can-shun-his-destiny/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3eb/homer-357_born_no-man-or-woman-born-coward-or-brave-can_1657039.png) > [Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/even-when-someone-battles-hard-there-is-an-equal-portion-for-one-who/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/878/homer-357_battle_even-when-someone-battles-hard-there-is_1765705.png) > [Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/without-a-sign-his-sword-the-brave-man-draws-and-asks-no-omen-but-his/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2b/homer-357_brave_without-a-sign-his-sword-the-brave-man-d_1867899.png) > [The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/the-skin-of-the-coward-changes-color-all-the-time-he-can-t-get-a-grip/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/940/homer-357_blanche_the-skin-of-the-coward-changes-color-all_2317081.jpg) > [Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/why-so-much-grief-for-me-no-man-will-hurl-me-down-to-death-against-my/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bda/homer-357_alive_why-so-much-grief-for-me-no-man-will-hur_2440671.png) ## Other authors on Brave - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-veronica-roth-93385.jpg) Veronica Roth 39 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/veronica-roth/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/mahatma-gandhi/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 21 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/swami-vivekananda/) - [Craig D. Lounsbrough 16 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/craig-d-lounsbrough/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/rick-riordan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Aristotle 14 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-gaiman-70689.jpg) Neil Gaiman 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/neil-gaiman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-ronald-reagan-81107.jpg) Ronald Reagan 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/ronald-reagan/) ## More by Homer > [He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/he-knew-the-things-that-were-and-the-things-that-would-be-and-the/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [“Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/few-sons-are-like-their-fathers-most-are-worse-few-better/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/the-lord-gives-and-the-lord-takes-away-as-it-pleases-him-for-he-can/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/sing-in-me-muse-and-through-me-tell-the-story-of-that-man-skilled-in/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/hateful-to-me-as-are-the-gates-of-hell-is-he-who-hiding-one-thing-in/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/and-zeus-said-hera-you-can-choose-some-other-time-for-paying-your/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/ruin-eldest-daughter-of-zeus-she-blinds-us-all-that-fatal-madness-she/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/scepticism-is-as-much-the-result-of-knowledge-as-knowledge-is-of/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [Boy, everyone is stupid except me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/boy-everyone-is-stupid-except-me/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/with-that-the-dream-departed-leaving-him-there-his-heart-racing-with/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/tell-me-o-muse-of-that-ingenious-hero-who-travelled-far-and-wide/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/ah-beer-my-one-weakness-my-achille-s-heel-if-you-will/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/my-life-is-more-to-me-than-all-the-wealth-of-ilius/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [Being popular is the most important thing in the world!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/being-popular-is-the-most-important-thing-in-the-world/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) > [Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/urge-him-with-truth-to-frame-his-fair-replies-and-sure-he-will-for/) [Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave/homer/#itemlist", "name": "8 Brave Quotes By Homer", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. 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