Quotes About Courage

What others may perceive as a gamble, leaders understand to be merely a calculated risk. In the face of superior odds, a leader must have the courage to innovate.

What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

It was an air one might still breathe, if everyone forgiven was brave.

It was hard not to be full of hope

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

Look at us, won't you? We are nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.

This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.

Once when we stopped to rest, she dug her toes into the earth at the edge of a field and smiled. When I saw her smile, I felt strong enough to carry on..

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living.

A scar means, I survived.

to have faith—that a lover would be constant and life clement—this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations.

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless

Who knows which takes more courage—to die in battle, or to live in vain? It cuts all of us in two, I suppose." Hamilton

What was war, after all, but morale in helmets and jeeps? And what was morale if not one hundred million little conversations, the sum of which might leave men brave enough to advance? The true heart of war was in small talk.

Then I'm tempted to die just to … spite him." "That's the spirit that will win us the war.

But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.

The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

It was not the same as charging down a machine-gun nest armed only with a Bowie knife, or strapping in to the tail-gunner seat of a four-engined heavy bomber. And no one else would ever know, since one did not get a medal for letting go of a woman's hand on a gray Saturday morning in the middle of a European war. But to have faith—that a lover would be constant and life clement—this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations. As