“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”
“I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths.For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.”
“of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.”
“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”
“Be brave-or at least, try to be brave-and good things can happen.”
“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”