Quotes About Bravery

For my young friends who are still afraid There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot--air far down, a snap that might have caught. And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing voice that finds its way by being afraid. That country is there, for us, carried as it is crossed. What you fear will not go away: it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

Now I have a choice. I can go back up, collect my football, and head home; or I can go through. I know what I ought to do. I know what every other boy in Amarias would do. But as I see it, those are the two best reasons there could possibly be for doing the opposite.

It sounds crazy, but I'm not even scared when I decide to go for it. Frankly, it's the only logical course of action. If you have the chance to uncover a secret and you walk away without looking, there's something wrong with you.

General Polk, who was dignified and corpulent, walked back slowly, not wishing to appear too hurried or cautious in the presence of the men, and was struck across the breast by an unexploded shell, which killed him instantly.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

Now we shall see which of us are good knights!

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is heThat every man in arms should wish to be?

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

In his fighting heart, there was no fear.

made a pilgrimage to Fort Robinson, where he chose death over the loss of his freedom.

It's not death people are afraid of. It's life.

The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to the slander. Charge!

We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best.