Quotes About Courage

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Never go to war unless your willing to win.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

War always takes you by surprise.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Wars can destroy everything but hope!

This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

War stinks! There's nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it's you or them.