Quotes About Bravery

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

The Demon curled its lips back, revealing a double row of needle-sharp teeth. I considered changing my chosen course of action; I considered fainting.

Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with the cry, "Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here."1 Forty-three thousand troops were ferried across the English

It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage.

Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with a cry, 'Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here.

As he later explained to Monuments Man Bernie Taper over drinks in a Berlin apartment, 'There's one good things about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

Of the estimated forty million men and women who have served in the armed forces since the Civil War, fewer than 3,500 have received the Medal of Honor, the highest honor the United States can bestow, some 60 percent posthumously.

Your countrymen owe you their freedom and their security. They sleep safely at night and pursue their dreams during the day because you stand the watch and protect them...You are the best America has to offer. My admiration and affection for yo is with limit, and I will think about you and your families and pray for you every day for the rest of my life. God Bless you.

Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.

If you had never seen war up close, it was an easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.

If you had never seen war up close, it was an easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair.

If you had never seen war up close, it was an easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation

yet lack the courage to act on the answer.

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

The Alamo is a great story of brave people who chose to fight, knowing there was no hope of success. They chose to die instead of surrendering.

A veces ando errante en la niebla y en mil vacilaciones y confusiones, y a menudo me siento abandonado [...] En el fondo, lo único que da orgullo y alegría al espíritu son los esfuerzos superados con bravura y los sufrimientos soportados con paciencia

When I had to leave she kissed me on both cheeks - a thing she had never done before - and said, 'There's just one thing to remember; whatever happens, it does no good to be afraid.' So I promised not to be afraid, and may even have been a fool enough to think I could keep my promise.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

Sometimes fear could be forgotten, but never for long.

I am like a man who has built his house on the lip of a volcano. Until the volcano claims me I live, in a sense, heriocally.

I come to call down my destiny - and it is tall and dangerous!

Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. What you be hiding fer? he called. On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed, came the response.

She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.