Quotes About Bravery

It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

The free man is a warrior.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Men, today we die a little.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.