Quotes About Courage

SEALs routinely risk their own lives to never leave a fellow SEAL behind, not because of anything financial, but because of a sacred promise to each other. Imagine being in a culture in which you know with 100 percent certainty—not 90 percent, not 95 percent, not 99 percent, but absolutely 100 percent—that no matter what happens, you'll never be left behind.

Courage, it's said, is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in its presence.

Look, this is going to be a very hard challenge. I want you to think about how demanding this is going to be. If you don't think you're going to like it, that's fine. Nobody's going to hate you.

When you turn over rocks and look at all the squiggly things underneath, you can either put the rock down, or you can say, 'My job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things,' even if what you see can scare the hell out of you."25 That quote, from Pitney Bowes executive Fred Purdue, could have come from any of the Pitney Bowes

When you turn over rocks and look at all the squiggly things underneath, you can either put the rock down, or you can say, 'My job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things,' even if what you see can scare the hell out of you."25

So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.

If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.

The power of men like me does not come solely from our ability to kill--which is no small talent in itself, true, but neither is it as rare as gold. No, the true source of our power is so obvious it sometimes goes unnoticed for what it is: our power comes from other men's lack of courage. There is even less courage in this world than here is talent for killing. Men like me rule because most men are faint of heart in the shadow of death.

she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.

Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

those who are young will take risks which even the devil would pass by.

It's only Christian to be chivalrous to your enemies.

I can't use hope against swords.

A samurai dies with dignity. For what is life to a samurai? Nothing at all. All life is suffering, neh ?

I'm not afraid, my son. I fear nothing on this earth. I fear only God's judgment

What is pain to a man? A privilege! Masking pain is the measure of a man.

Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

No man knows courage," his father had told him, "who has not known fear.

Through bravery you may win a war, and through bravery you may lose. -Polish Proverb

His dad asked Bud what the decorations meant. All the Samuel B. Roberts survivor could say in reply was they meant that he had not dishonored his mother.

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In an unpublished 1945 dispatch sent shortly before he was killed by machine-gun fire on Okinawa, Ernie Pyle evoked the precarious seaworthiness of the tiny vessels: "They are rough and tumble little ships. They roll and they plunge. They buck and they twist. They shudder and they fall through space. They are in the air half the time, under water half the time. Their sailors say they should have flight pay and submarine pay both.