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Quotes About Courage

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
~ William Shakespeare
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
~ Thomas Hood
Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.
~ Heather Graham
This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.
~ John Wayne
How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?
~ Torii Mototada
Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
~ Dan Brown
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
~ Muhammad Ali
I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
~ Ashleigh Banfield
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.
~ Susan Crandall
My daddy always said being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.
~ Susan Crandall
I wasn't never gonna run off again, no matter how bad things got. But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't. And I was gonna spend the rest of my life asking questions and looking behind everything that happened, so I could find the gifts I got tucked inside me.
~ Susan Crandall
But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't.
~ Susan Crandall
being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.
~ Susan Crandall
all bullies got worse when you let them know they were hurting you.
~ Susan Crandall
Never let a bully see you scared.
~ Susan Crandall
Regrets are the monsters under the bed.
~ Susan Crandall
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~ Susan Diane Murphree
Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
There you are," he said when she bobbed up. "I was getting worried." "What are you doing?" "Waiting till you're ready to drown." He smiled and eased back down on the seat. "And then I'm going to save your life. Dan did it for Phoebe and I'm going to do it for you." "Dan didn't try to murder her first!" she screamed. "I go the extra mile.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You shouldn't dare a person who doesn't have anything left to lose.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?' 'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.' 'You're letting me demean you!' She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips