Quotes About Bravery

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.

Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

You can choose to die. You can choose to run... but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change... you're going to have to live.

When it seemed that Lincoln might throw the champion, the entire Clary Grove clan jumped him and drove the tall clerk back against the bluff. But Lincoln, blazing with defiance, offered to take them all on—one at a time. Impressed with his pluck, Armstrong shook Lincoln's hand, turned to the spectators, and pronounced the fight a draw.

Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.

Shakespeare gave Henry V before the Battle of Agincourt, when the King addresses his men as 'we few, we happy few, we band of brothers'. Churchill was wont to compare the fighter pilots with knights.

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.

5. Once there is "a flavor of certitude," says Bede, then "pray for the courage to take action." It's not uncommon for us to get to certitude and then realize that we don't really want to take the action. We're

A central pillar of his later teaching was that fearlessness is a prerequisite for nonviolence.

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling Books: New York, 2008

James A. McGowan. Station Master on the Underground Railroad. MacFarland and Co.: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2004

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Back Bay Books: New York, 2004

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling: New York, 2008

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "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?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.

At the hangars, each jumpmaster was given two packs of papers, containing an order of the day from Eisenhower and a message from Colonel Sink, to pass around to the men. "Tonight is the night of nights," said Sink's. "May God be with

The Easy Company men began throwing grenades at the retreating enemy. Compton had been an All-American catcher on the UCLA baseball team. The distance to the fleeing enemy was about the same as from home plate to second base. Compton threw his grenade on a straight line—no arch—and it hit a German in the head as it exploded. He

Each time he came back with all his fingers he would flash thumbs-up all around the platform to show how he was lucky, how none of this was ever going to touch him.