Quotes About Bravery

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, and "Chuck 'im out, the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot.

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.