Quotes About Bravery

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

But Pelagia didn't wait for the second circle: with a sickening squeal, she thrust the two needles straight through the cloth of the bag into the murderer's only eye. At the final moment she suddenly felt frightened: What if she hadn't remembered which eye was the natural one? However, to judge

There was one thing the public could say for certain about Churchill: that there was nothing that he was going to ask the British armed forces to do that he would not have done himself.

On ne reste pas parce qu'on aime certaines personnes; on s'en va parce qu'on en déteste d'autres. Il n'y a que le moche qui vous fasse agir. On est lâches.

For cowards the rode of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.

Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

Courage ennobles manhood; cowardice degrades it.

It is easier to die bravely than to live so.

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

You want to do something, but you are afraid, seriously afraid. You can't move. Your legs feel like rubber. Your arms tingle. And you hate yourself for that.

You are the worst sort of friend. You are too scared to help. You will never forget that feeling. Cowardice.

Myron got out of the car. There was a padlock on one end of the chain. Using his heel, Myron kicked down on it. The lock broke. The chain fell to the ground with a heavy clunk. "We're trespassing," Myron said. "Let's live on the edge, old friend. That's where all the goodies reside." As

The shame of cowardice never leaves.

A beating hurts for a little while. The shame of cowardice never leaves.

Parenting. It ain't for sissies.

So Ema and I went our separate ways. I got home, still lost in my thoughts. I had figured out what had happened in the Caldwell household. Most of it, anyway. I was having trouble making all the pieces fit. There was, I knew, only one way to get the answers I needed. It was going to involve putting myself in more peril. I didn't relish that either. There was a fine line between being daringly brave and foolishly suicidal. I wasn't in the mood to find out just how fine. But

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. —FRANÇOIS, DUE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maximes, 1665

There are only three principles of warfare: Audacity, Audacity, and AUDACITY!

We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

Smith recalls: "Within a span of perhaps twenty minutes everyone around me was dead or wounded, except me.

The most precious commodity with which the Army deals is the individual soldier who is the heart and soul of our combat forces. —GENERAL J. LAWTON COLLINS

James A. Mullartey from our 1st Platoon made it back to our lines. His story: The NVA had been shooting our wounded. One came up to him, stuck a pistol in his mouth, and fired. The bullet exited the back of his throat, knocked him out and they left him for dead. He survived and when he woke up at night he started crawling to us.