A brave man scorns to quarrel ...

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
 John Dryden

More phrases

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?
 Daniel Jacobs
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Quotes from the same author

Fortune befriends the bold.
 John Dryden
A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
 John Dryden
Men are but children of a larger growth.
 John Dryden
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
 John Dryden
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
 John Dryden