Quotes About Bravery

Christian and the rest of the Buffalo Soldiers ducked their heads

To every man and woman who wears a uniform, carries a badge, and spends their days and nights working in the criminal justice system to keep the rest of us safe. We are often too quick to criticize and too slow to say thank you.

You know the definition of a hero?" I figured I could make up one on the fly. "Someone who acts without considering his own safety?" "Someone too stupid not to consider his own safety and gets himself and other people killed

Fill your hands, you son of a bitch

Well, let's go. If the people in that city are going to cut our throats they may as well do it now, before the heat of the day begins.

He was no defensive fighter; even in the teeth of overwhelming odds he always carried the war to the enemy.

Por que la única arma del hombre es ese coraje que no retrocede ni ante las mismisimas puertas del Infierno y ante el cual nada pueden ni siquiera las legiones infernales.

He had never fled from a single foe, and had the thought occurred to him he would have flushed with shame.

Many of the most heroic deeds of the war were performed by small, isolated groups of soldiers, unaware of the situation, without adequate equipment or support, who stood and battled it out with the Germans until overwhelmed.

This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

It was blowing a blizzard. He [Capt. Lawrence E. G. Oates] said, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since.

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires, than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self. ARISTOTLE

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

The suicide wants the very thing that a coward fears.

She had drawn strength from everyone else's weakness, hoping that her adrenaline-fueled bravery would carry her safely back to normality,