Quotes About Bravery

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

There are some things worthy of risking your life for.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.

I'm a tomboy at heart, and I've got the battle wounds to prove it!

Guys like scars! They're like war wounds.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

My goal in talking about my sexuality publicly is just so that a scared little girl or little boy can see me do it and think, 'wow, if she did it, then maybe it's OK that I do it.' It's to encourage people to be themselves.

I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet.

I was scared to film 'GLOW' for many reasons. As an actor, as a wrestler. It was just a very scary and intimidating experience.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.