Quotes About Courage

We're a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we'll never be stopped.

The Yanks are coming,The drums rum-tumming everywhere.

I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy,A Yankee Doodle do or die;A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam'sBorn on the Fourth of July.

And we won't come back till it's over over there.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

This myth called bravery, which is half-panic, half-lunacy (in my case, all panic), pays for all; in England you can't be a hero and bad. There's practically a law against it.

Courage - and shuffle the cards.

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

Thats what you young chaps have to remember. When u run, RUN! Full speed. Don't dither or dally even for an instant. let terror have his way, for he's the best friend you;ve got

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave... This chamber reeks of blood... it does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam, because it is not our blood that is being shed.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare.

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

All fear does is waste time.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.