Bravery Quote by Norman Mailer Download Open image “As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.” — Norman Mailer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bravery Courage Dies Excess Fear People Timidity
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike,” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the courage to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Courage is the skill of being the only one who knows your scared to death — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fearing our confrontations is one thing... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.” — Mark W. Boyer Copy Share Image
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“We were taught to be good, and we were taught to be careful. But in this world, sometimes, I do not think we can… — Marguerite Bennett Copy Share Image
“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
