Quotes About Courage

That would be like me tellin' a gosling not to migrate down south his first mature season. You got to go. Got to. There's gonna be snakes and foxes, and in your case, [...], there might even be men with guns.

You can't fight with death, all you can do is stand your ground and hope that the foundation don't fall out from under you.

These were people who faced their fears and created the world as they moved through it.

Scared is the lamp that lights the way.

You don't have to be smart to be tough-minded. As a matter of fact, the combination of stupidity and silence might be the greatest weapon in the history of our species.

I ate with them and slept with them, and I killed enough blue-eyed young men to know that they were just as afraid to die as I was.

I wore death on my shoulder like a superheroes cape, but that didn't matter. I was going to fight the good fight and, win or lose, I'd be counted as a man who struggled against his own fate.

Though assailed by hopelessness I was not afraid.

Jackson couldn't fly straight down if you threw him off a cliff.

No fighter ever won his fight by covering up—by merely fending off the other fellow's blows. The winner hits and keeps on hitting even though he has to take some stiff blows in order to be able to keep on hitting. —ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, 1942

Then Nimitz, being Nimitz, posted the usual watches and did the only thing that made sense to him. "On that black night somewhere in the Philippines," he later recalled, "the advice of my grandfather returned to me: 'Don't worry about things over which you have no control.' So I set up a cot on deck and went to sleep.

Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!

As he offered to advance, she exclaimed, Remain where thou art, proud Templar, or at thy choice advance!--one foot nearer, and I plunge myself from the precipice; my body shall be crushed out of the very form of humanity upon the stones of that courtyard ere it become the victim of thy brutality!

T]he pure light of chivalry... distinguishes the noble from the base, the gentle knight from the churl and the savage;... rates our life far, far beneath the pitch of our honour, raises us victorious over pain, toil, and suffering, and teaches us to fear no evil but disgrace.

T]hou knowest not the heart of woman... [N]ot in thy fiercest battles hast thou displayed more of thy vaunted courage than has been shown by woman when called upon to suffer by affection or duty.

Fear to do base unworthy things is valour;      If they be done to us, to suffer them      Is valour too.

The Chiefs of Glengarry, Keppoch, and Lochiel, whose clans, equal in courage and military fame to any in the Highlands, lay within the neighbourhood of the scene of action, dispatched the fiery cross through their vassals, to summon every one who could bear arms to meet the King's lieutenant, and to join the standards of their respective Chiefs, as they marched towards Inverlochy.

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.

Peace is an inestimable jewel; but it will be soon snatched from those who are not prepared with heart and hand to defend it.

But the whole circumstances of time, place, and incident, combined at once to awaken his imagination, and to call upon him for a manly and decisive tone of conduct, leaving to fate to dispose of the issue. Should

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

If you're afraid of something, then reach deep inside and face it head-on.

The Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, including those who went on what they thought were suicide missions, had a higher rate of survival than those who went along. Never forget that. The only way out of a double bind is to smash it. Never forget that either. --Derrick Jensen

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press