Quotes About Courage

He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me.

2 As Halloran parachuted over Tokyo, the Zero that had shot him down sped toward him, and Halloran was certain that he was going to be strafed, as so many falling airmen were. But instead of firing, the pilot saluted him. After the war, Halloran and that pilot, Isamu Kashiide, became dear friends.

To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult. It is without question one of the most formidable feats in sport.

Thorbjørn Christiansen

Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was

With only hook latches for locks, Louise took to sitting by the front door on an apple box with a rolling pin in her hand, ready to brain any prowlers who might threaten her children.

actress Esther Williams on the wall. The note that Louie had left on the locker was gone, as was the liquor. Among Louie's things, Krey found photographs that Louie had taken inside his plane. In some of them, Louie

They were alone on sixty-four million square miles of ocean. A month earlier

Who hit you in the butt with a saddle and told you you could ride?" a starter hissed before a race. "The same S.O.B. that hit you in the butt and told you you could start!" he shot back. Pollard had found the one place on earth that could hold his interest. He was broke, hungry, and, according to his sister Edie, "happy as heck.

Louie grabbed the flare gun, loaded it, and fired. The flare shot straight at the bomber; for a moment, the men thought that it would hit the plane. But the flare missed, passing alongside the plane, making a fountain of red that looked huge from the raft. Louie reloaded and fired again. The plane turned sharply right. Louie fired two more flares, past the tail.

I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War.

If Red breaks that leg again," Howard said soberly, "it will cripple him for life." Alexander told him that maybe it was better to break a man's leg than his heart.

From this day forward, until victory or defeat, transfer, discharge, capture, or death took them from it, the vast Pacific would be beneath and around them. Its bottom was already littered with downed warplanes and the ghosts of lost airmen. Every day of this long and ferocious war, more would join them.

Laura Hillenbrand

What the Zamperinis were experiencing wasn't denial, and it wasn't hope. It was belief.

A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.

Be brave, be kind, be honest, be true— remember these things are alive within you.

Let yourself go and you'll be more than you've ever thought of being.

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.

But I do know about fear. I've faced it, more than once. That's what one has to do with fear, by the way. Face it and defeat it because you can't ever run far enough or fast enough to escape from it.

them. "Go to hell," she said, and stood up. "Or better yet, go back to Egypt. That godforsaken place is probably hotter and more miserable than hell anyway.