Quotes About Bravery

Hail, Emperor, we who are about to die salute you.

He neither feared to die nor refused to live.

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.

The battle is important. Don't tell my death

Australian pro surfer Dave Rastovich, straddling his board waiting for a wave, was astonished to watch a dolphin hurtle itself at a shark that was torpedoing toward him, sending it fleeing. (Coincidentally, only two days earlier Rastovich had launched a nonprofit group, Surfers for Cetaceans, to protect dolphins and whales.)

But a strange thing happens when your worst nightmare is realized: nothing much is left to scare you.

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

I was born as a soldier and will die as one.

I am a soldier. That is who I am. That is what I do.

In the Army, I was running for India and I was a soldier who could have died for India.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

I'm a combat soldier.

I know what soldiers or their families go through.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

I feel that our country's real heroes are our brave soldiers who leave their families to protect our land.

From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.