Quotes About Courage

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

All men would be cowards if they could.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.

There is no strong beer, just weak men