Quotes About Courage

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

All men of honor are alone.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

I can stand out the war with any man.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.