Quotes About Courage

Please tell Field Marshal Goring for me, to stick his Swiss bank account up his fat ass.

What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear, in the way that best honors one's intelligence and one's birth. Part 2 THE FAITH

This country of ours consists of pioneers, after

he now knew the difference between honest fright and animal terror. One was bearable, human, not incapacitating; the other was moral castration.

By keeping back the twenty-five squadrons from the lost Battle of France, he acted toughly, wisely, and ungallantly; and he turned the war to the course that ended five long years later, when Hitler killed himself and Nazi Germany fell apart. This deed put Winston Churchill in the company of the rare saviors of countries, and perhaps of civilizations.

Success for the most part attends those who act boldly, not those who weigh everything, and are slack to venture.

Just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could blank out the sun with their arrows. He replied Good, then we shall have our battle in the shade.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Here they resisted to the last, with their swords if they had them, and if not, with their hands and teeth

There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

I'll die, but before I'll run

Le fracas des explosions les faisait à peine ciller et les pressait contre la poitrine des mères, les accrochait au cou des pères. De fatigue, la peur des adultes s'était envolée. Comme il était naïf le proverbe des temps de paix qui affirmait que la peur chassait le sommeil, c'était au contraire le besoin de dormir qui chassait tout le reste, guerres et tremblements de terre.

A quick wrassle with a bear.

Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father's face?

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The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him

Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!