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“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”
Augustine of Hippo (disputed) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136
“Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.”
Karl Ludwig von Knebel (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marlowe, bathed in Thespian springs Had in him those brave translunary things, That the first poets had.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You brave heroic minds Worthy your country’s name, That honour still pursue; Go and subdue!”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mein lieber Professor, ein solcher Krieg hätte uns wenigstens 30,000 Mann brave Soldaten gekostet, und uns im besten Falle keinen Gewinn gebracht. Wer aber nur ein Mal in das brechende Auge eines sterbenden Kriegers auf dem Schlachtfeld geblickt hat, der besinnt sich, bevor er einen Krieg anfängt.”
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks of June 1867 defending provisions of the Treaty of London (11 May 1867), as quoted in Prince Bismarck : A Biographical Sketch (1875) by Wilhelm Görlach, p. 13; prior to these remarks he is quoted as having said:…
“For pity, sir, find out that bee Which bore my love away. I'll seek him in your bonnet brave, I'll seek him in your eyes.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes.Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; O how that glittering taketh me!”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!”
Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The brave old Oak (lyrics, 1837).
Also quoted by: H. F. Chorley
“Then here’s to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he, a hale green tree, When a hundred years are gone!”
Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The brave old Oak (lyrics, 1837).
Also quoted by: H. F. Chorley
“To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe! March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!”
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Joseph Rouget De L'isle
“All Asiatics are cruel dogs. All they captured of my soldiers, they beat to death. The Russian soldiers are very brave, stable, tough.”
Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, February 28, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“The Russians were five times superior to us poor but brave Germans, both in numbers and in the superiority of their equipment. My immediate commander was Hitler himself. Unfortunately, Hitler's advice in those critical periods was invariably lousy.”
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881–1954) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn (25 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews", Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellatel (2004).
“How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest!”
William Collins (1721–1759) first seen 1746 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode written in the year 1746.
“I saw the earth open like a huge mouth, then close again over the paved street. An old man was trapped by the foot. I ran to him, told him to be brave while I hacked the pavement with a fireman's axe. But I was too late. The vise tightened, bit his leg off at the knee. I carried him away. His knee is still there, a bloody souvenir sticking out of the earth.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the warrior returns, from the battle afar, To the home and the country he nobly defended, O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear, And loud be the joy that his perils are ended: In the full tide of song let his fame roll along, To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng, Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave, And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”
Francis Scott Key (1779–1843) first seen 1806 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song" in The Port Folio Vol. 1, No. 1 (11 January 1806), p. 79; also in Poems of the Late Francis Scott Key, Esq. (1857), p. 34.
“The brave deserve the lovely—every woman may be won.”
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dare aver He is a brave discoverer Of climes his elders do not know. He has more learning than appears On the scroll of twice three thousand years.”
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give me to die unwitting of the day, And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear!”
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In our brave new world, blushing is a form of nostalgia.”
John Leonard (critic) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But when a snow-flake, brave and meek, Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek, It starts—"How warm and soft the day!" "'Tis summer!" and it melts away.”
Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis more brave To live, than to die.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And if so many brave men and women could sacrifice their lives for our most fundamental rights, then surely we can do our parts as citizens of this great democracy to exercise those rights. Surely we can get to the polls on an election day and make our voices heard.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We become more ourselves when we are brave enough to show our real selves.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of America’s wars except the first—the war for independence — were wars for Empire. Keep that fact in mind as you hear the Memorial Day bloviations about the brave men and women who served our country in its times of peril.”
Paul Craig Roberts (born 1939) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our Prospects Against the Russians & Chinese in WW3, Information Clearing House (28 May 2016)
“Beloved Scotland of the winter and the hills! ’Tis little that thou’lt get from them, but they will make thee hard and brave!”
Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These be but men. We may forget The wild sea-king, the tawny brave, The frowning wold, the woody shore, The tall-built, sunburnt men of Mars. . .But what and who was she, the fair? The fairest face that ever yet Look'd in a wave as in a glass; That look'd as look the still, far stars, So woman-like, into the wave To contemplate their beauty there, Yet look as looking anywhere?”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good sirs, take heart: — We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us. Come, away: This case of that huge spirit now is cold. — Ah, women, women! — come; we have no friend But resolution, and the briefest end.”
Cleopatra (69–30 BC) said by 30 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.”
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) said by 1818 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, my brave Arabs! If I could only gather them in from all their desert ways, and arm them properly... But I fear it cannot be. They are drifting in by tens and scores, where I need hundreds and thousands.”
İsmail Enver (1881–1922) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The American Review of Reviews" - Page 184 - by Albert Shaw – 1915.
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson (1732–1808) first seen 1768 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Liberty Song (1768).
“Even the British Arthur becomes an Englishman, a Germanic hero, brave, daring and open-handed. We are in a world of feasts and vaunting speeches, flytings and lusty battles, fierce deeds and bloody humour, with the Fiend, the Adversary of Man, always round the next corner.”
Layamon (1200–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gwyn Jones, in Wace and Layamon (trans. Eugene Mason) Arthurian Chronicles (London: Dent, [1912] 1976) p. xi.
“Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.”
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christian Ethicks (1675); cited from Bertram Dobell (ed.) The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. lvii.
“A Warrior so bold, and a Virgin so bright Conversed, as They sat on the green: They gazed on each other with tender delight; Alonzo the Brave was the name of the Knight, The Maid's was the Fair Imogine.”
Matthew Lewis (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Malala is a brave and gentle advocate of peace who through the simple act of going to school became a global teacher. She said one pen can change the world - and proved how one young woman can lead the way.”
Ban Ki-moon (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.”
Apuleius (125–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A brave endeavor To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever And love is the sweetest thing on earth.”
James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sir Hugo's Choice, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.”
Jackson C. Frank (1943–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For wine, they drank the ocean – for bread, they ate their own despairs; counsel from the moon was theirs – for the foolish contention - Murder is not a pretty thing – yet seas do raucous everything to make it pretty – for the foolish or the brave, a way seas have.”
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: poem on his painting: Fishermen’s Last Supper [of the Mason family, c. 1940-1941]; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 113
“The people bend before me. I turn the battle in the field of the brave. I look on the nations, and they vanish: my nostrils pour the blast of death. I come abroad on the winds: the tempests are before my face. But my dwelling is calm, above the clouds; the fields of my rest are pleasant.”
James Macpherson (1736–1796) said by 1796 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The institute (Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology)'s researchers laid the foundation for its success by daring to brave the challenges they faced and learning from their failures.”
Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the street.”
John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1856; New York: Harper, 1861) vol. 3, part 6, ch. 7, p. 627.
“I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people — brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.”
Daniel Hannan (born 1971) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The republic will survive Trump, but will the Republicans?" (3 September 2018), The Washington Examiner
“Are you brave enough to let me see your peacock? Don't be a chicken boy Stop acting like a beotch Imma peace out if you don't give me the payoff.”
Katy Perry (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A brave nation fights because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Betraying Brave Boys,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 26, 2003.
“I’m so fearful, that’s not fearless... I act more brave because I know the danger’s really there. If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.”
“It is easy to think that we should put up a brave front and stay positive about all our struggles. But that is not the biblical model.”
John Townsend (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!”
Winfield Scott (1786–1866) first seen 1847 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to US forces after the of Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican-American War (September 1847) as quoted in The Life and Military and Civic Services of Lieut-Gen. Winfield Scott (1861) by Orville James Victor, p. …
“Who wants to brave those bronze beauties Lying in the sun. With their long soft hair falling Flying as they run. Oh they smile so shy And they flirt so well And they lay you down so fast Till you look straight up and say Oh lord, am I really here at last?”