O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 843), (Bryant's translation)

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In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna. [Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes , Source: Ars Poetica

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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur ignotique sacro.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes , Source: Odes (bk. IV, IX, 25)

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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world!

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes , Source: Maxims (216)

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'Tis more brave To live, than to die.

Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes , Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto VI, st. 11)

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How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes , Source: Lays of Ancient Rome--Horatius (70)

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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes , Source: Epigrams (XI, 56, 15)

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Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes , Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 608)

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The brave find a home in every land. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes , Source: Fasti (I, 493)

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God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes , Source: Metamorphoses (X, 586)

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At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Aristotle Quotes

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Philip Sidney Quotes

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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Ghandi Quotes

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Omar Bradley Quotes

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