A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
He who is brave is free.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.