Quotes About Bravery

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

They rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid.

So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

Kohaku aren't you afraid to die? No. Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

Challenge yourself to the limits of your fears. Get moving on.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15 000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

And I know that I would take one night with him, one hour, against everything that the world, or Hitler, can throw at me.

But he could not return; he was afraid of what lay ahead, he dreaded the unknown, but it was easier to walk forwards than backwards.

Take any path and hope for the best. At least it will lead you out of the shadows.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it like Ahab with the White Whale. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. Even in matriarchal societies I doubt that there were ever female Beowulfs. Women lie with gods and demons but they don't go looking for monsters to fight with. Ariadne gave Theseus a clew but the Minotaur was his business.

Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.

He who does not risk will never drink champagne.

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Only those who have been brave enough to ride their own monsters of anger and greed, jealousy and narcissism, fear and violence all the way down to the bottom will find a truer energy with which to lead.

I'd learned an important lesson: When something frightens me, it is definitely worth doing.