Brave Quotes

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. The veteran scarcely listens to them, and the recruit forgets them at the first discharge.

One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don’t want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious firefight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, “Fixing the wire, Sir.” I asked, “Isn’t that a […]

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.