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Quotes About Courage

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
~ Lester B. Pearson
Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.
~ Rachel Grady
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
~ Duke of Wellington
I would go to war with Dhoni by my side.
~ Gary Kirsten
I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.
~ J. E. B. Stuart
Force is the weapon of the weak.
~ Ammon Hennacy
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
~ F. E. Adcock
All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
~ Leon Uris
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
~ William III of England
It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
~ Ernst Junger
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."
~ Joshua R. Sands
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
~ Gautama Buddha
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
~ E. Jean Carroll
Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.
~ Georgy Zhukov
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
~ Mao Zedong
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
~ Robert Capa
Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.
~ Zakk Wylde
This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
~ James Longstreet
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
~ H. G. Wells
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
~ Benito Mussolini
The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo
~ Erwin Rommel
Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.
~ Emilie Schindler