Quotes About Bravery

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

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.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Let it never be said that you crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.

But if, on the contrary, you are inclined - late in life though it be - to reconnoitre a foreign sphere of limitless extent, then be persuaded that the first quality that is needed is Audacity.

I should be unworthy of your confidence and generosity if I did not still cry: Forward, unflinching, unswerving, indomitable, till the whole task is done and the whole world is safe and clean.

3760we will fight them on the beaches

Shoot if you must this old grey head, But spare your country's flag,' she said.

they meant to test the ground; and in so doing they were prepared to go to the very edge of the precipice. It is so easy to lose one's balance there: a touch, a gust of wind, a momentary dizziness, and all is precipitated into the abyss.

Without Courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

if only the Generals had not been content to fight machine-gun bullets with the breasts of gallant men, and think that that was waging war.

Nothing…is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

What combination of events could ever bring back again to France and Flanders the formidable Canadians of the Vimy Ridge; the glorious Australians of Villers-Bretonneux; the dauntless New Zealanders of the crater-fields of Passchendaele; the steadfast Indian Corps which in the cruel winter of

The Scots were unconquerable foes. It was not until 1305 that Wallace was captured, tried with full ceremonial in Westminster Hall, and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. But the Scottish war was one in which, as a chronicler said, "every winter undid every summer's work". Wallace was to pass the torch to Robert Bruce.

The Germans met them in overwhelming strength, and furious fighting began. All but five of the landing party were killed or captured.

the one most awful thing in war is 'the careful man'!

I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it.

BECKMANN: Ich soll leben, sagst du! Dieses Leben leben? Dann sag mir auch: Wozu? Für Wen? Für was? DER ANDERE: Für dich! Für das Leben! Deine Straße wartet. Und hin und wieder kommen Laternen. Bist du so feige, daß du Angst hast vor der Finsternis zwischen zwei Laternen? Willst du nur Laternen haben? Komm, Beckmann, weiter, bis zur nächsten Laterne.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

Go ahead — walk into the propeller.

Dios (Una comedia) DORIS: Fidipides. ¿Cómo puedes negarte? DIABETES: Cuando se es un cobarde, ciertas cosas resultan muy fáciles.

What you must do, said Monkey, is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.

Los tímidos somos capaces de cualquier cosa