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The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through
his iron, through his blood.
[Ger., Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Lander
Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.]
Author: Ernst Moritz Arndt
Source: Lehre an den Menschen (5)
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Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone
As when the Organ's music rolls;
No gold rewards, but song alone,
The deeds of great and noble souls.
[Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,
Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;
Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann
Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.]
Author: Gottfried Augustus Burger
Source: Lied von Braven Mann
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Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 5)
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The truly brave,
When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
Are touched with a desire to shield and save:--
A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods
Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave,
Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods
The rugged tree unto the summer wind,
Compassion breathes along the savage mind.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto VIII, st. 106)
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the
surface and their toughness in the middle.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto VIII, st. 106)
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
[Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans,
voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (I, 2)
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
. . . .
By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
Author: William Collins
Source: Ode, written in 1746
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Brave men are brave from the very first.
[Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Le Cid (II, 3)
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Toil for the brave!
The brave that are no more.
Author: William Cowper
Source: On the Loss of the Royal George
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The god-like hero sate
On his imperial throne:
His valiant peers were placed around,
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
(So should desert in arms be crowned).
The lovely Thais by his side,
Sate like a blooming Eastern bride
In flower of youth and beauty's pride.
Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave,
None but the brave,
None but the brave deserve the fair.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Alexander's Feast (st. 1)
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The brave man seeks not popular applause,
Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,
Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 2015)
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Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.
Author: Philip Freneau
Source: To the Memory of the Brave Americans who fell at Eulaw Springs
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The brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
Author: John Gay
Source: Fable--The Lion, Tiger and Traveller (l. 33)
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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XII, l. 283), (Pope's translation)
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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.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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!
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (216)
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There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though a whole town's against him.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus (pt. III, John Endicott, act II, sc. 2)
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'Tis more brave
To live, than to die.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto VI, st. 11)
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How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
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.]
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (XI, 56, 15)
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Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 608)
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The brave find a home in every land.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Fasti (I, 493)
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God himself favors the brave.
[Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Source: None
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Author: Philip Sidney
Source: None
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Author: Mahatma Ghandi
Source: None
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Author: Omar Bradley
Source: None
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