Quotes About Courage

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

Love must risk all or perish.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

Soldiers train for war, but pray for peace

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, " he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

Peace be with you, " I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it.

Like war, love - all kinds of love - is for men who can take it. If they dare.

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom