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You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

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

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.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Bravery is the engine of change.