Quotes About Courage

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

I like war.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

It helps with your acting when you're not in a perfect costume, perfect wardrobe, a perfectly seamed blouse, perfectly ironed hair, and perfectly done eyeshadow. It's really liberating.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It's one thing to call it just, but to pretend it's 'brave' is Orwellian in the extreme.

Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

If my hands get cold, I'll go inside to warm them up and basically never come back out. I'm a little wimp.

My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.