Quotes About Courage

You believe in heroes?" Corvino looked at him thoughtfully. "I cannot believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I am a soldier. I try to fight for the right cause. Sometimes it is hard to know.

What so many of us who abhor violence often forget is that we have peace and civilized lives because there were men and women who went before us who were willing to fight for our freedom to live in peace.

stood them off with a Spencer fifty-six until they decided they could have more fun somewhere else with less trouble. You don't forget a man like that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and Mort was a complete stranger to Kilkenny until he rode in there, half-dead.

as they were, and skillful with weapons, they went about where they liked and did as they pleased, approaching the inevitable time when they would cross the wrong man

We Sackett boys never killed anything we didn't need to eat unless it was coming at us. A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

come between him and at least two of the gunmen, and for a moment she had brought to a halt whatever plans they had. Her red-gold hair blew in the

But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was the one thing the frontier would not accept - Kilkenny

Ma'am,' I said, 'I'd have liked it, having you for a ma.

Courage and bravery are words too often used, too little considered. It is one thing to speak them, another thing to live them.

He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. "I reckon I'll stay, ma'am. Down where I come from, we don't back water for no man.

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.

We were young then, and the West was young, with the land broad and bright before us. We knew, whatever the truth was, that every horse could be ridden, every man whipped, every girl loved.

This was a big country needing big men and women to live in it, and there was no place out here for the frightened or the mean.

It is neither size nor age that makes a man, Mr. Ryerson, but something he has inside. My son has it.

Raindrops felt his cheeks with blind, questing fingers...the black trunks of the trees were like iron bars against the gray of gathering pools. Radigan

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone. Perhaps

At another time she had said, "Do not be afraid. A little fear can make one cautious. Too much fear can rob you of initiative. Respect fear, but use it for an incentive, do not let it bind you or tie you down.

We are a people of the frontier, born to it, bred to it, looking always toward it. And when the frontiers of our own land are gone, when we have drawn them all into an ordered world, then we must seek other frontiers, the frontiers of the mind beyond which men have not gone, the frontiers that lie out beyond the stars, the frontiers that lie within our own selves, that hold us back from what we would do, what we would achieve.

Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell.

You will leave here at daybreak and you will leave alone. He smiled, showing a fine set of white, even teeth. And if I do not choose to? Bodies do not lie long upon the ground. The coyotes dispose of them.

up, his features stern with disapproval. "I

Louis L'Amour

Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight…fight. Talk about it after.

feet on the deck over their heads and then the sound, far off but