Brave Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

— Tacitus

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra…

— Tacitus

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is…

— George MacDonald

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

— Lajos Kossuth

“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are…

— Gene Wolfe

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

— Anonymous

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

— Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

There are the bold, the bad, and the brave. The bold are daring. The bad are blamed. And the brave are willing.

— Amber Hope

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not…

— Nelson Mandela