Quotes About Courage

God is always with the strongest battalions.

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.