Quotes About Bravery

I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.

Time to man up.

you can manufacture weapons, and you can purchase ammunition, but you can't buy valor and you can't pull heroes off an assembly line.

She had always had a streak of recklessness about her, a willingness to go chasing hurricanes and tsunamis, all in the name of science, always willing to go that bit further than anybody else. Disaster hunting, she called it, surfing the extreme weather.

At some point, you just pull of the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then its over and you're relieved.

we can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us

Unterdrücke deine Angst oder lass dich von ihr verschlingen.

I don't think we'd ever really exchanged two words before, but I guess this was the time to start. All I said was, "If you ever do this again, I'll tell everyone. And if that doesn't work, I'll blind you.

Podemos tragarnos nuestro miedo o dejar que nos devore

Take the chance and live. Whatever strategy you choose, YOU WIN.

At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

There were many who went in huddled procession, They knew not wither, But, at any rate, success or calamity Would attend all in equality. There was one who sought a new road, He went into direful thickets, And ultimately he died thus, alone; But they said he had courage.

Ma, I'm going to enlist.

These men were born to drill and die.             Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,             Make plain to them the excellence of killing             And a field where a thousand corpses lie.

He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them. Also

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.

If You Ain't Afraid, Go Do It Then

He saw that to be firm soldiers they must go forward.

He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

Henry Fleming?

Daddy, were you a hero? And he answered, No, but I served with heroes.

In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' " Ã¢â'¬ËœNo,' I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.' 

Pvt. Robert Fruling said he spent two and a half days at Pointe-du-Hoc, all of it crawling on his stomach. He returned on the twenty-fifth anniversary of D-Day "to see what the place looked like standing up" (Louis Lisko interview, EC).

Discipline won't do it, because discipline relies on punishment, and there is no punishment the Army can inflict on a front-line soldier worse than putting him into the front line.3