Quotes About Bravery

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.