Quotes About Bravery

La libertad supone responsabilidad. Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.

I know how many lives any move of mine will cost; and if the move is worth the cost I make it and pay the cost. But Joan never counts the cost at all:

men never really overcome fear until they imagine they are fighting to further a universal purpose—fighting for an idea, as they call it. Why was the Crusader braver than the pirate? Because he fought, not for himself, but for the Cross.

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

I will not profess bravery [...] but I acknowledge a good deal of pleasure in fighting.

But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery—the sooner the better.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?

Fights are won by fighting, not by running.

When I won my first MMA fight, I put myself out there for the world to see me.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

I have often wondered what it was like to be in the trenches during war, knowing that tomorrow morning you have got to go over the top and that you might die and what a surreal feeling, in addition to fear, that might be.

Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

It's what makes you happy in life, and to pursue it, I think, is brave and a wonderful thing. I don't care what people say. I just want to pursue what makes me happy.