Quotes About Courage

Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well."15

If you are walking through hell, keep walking!

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

I should be unworthy of your confidence and generosity if I did not still cry: Forward, unflinching, unswerving, indomitable, till the whole task is done and the whole world is safe and clean.

3760we will fight them on the beaches

I was so untutored as to suppose that all I had to do was to think out what was right and express it fearlessly.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.

the Battle of Alamein, called Desert Victory.

Shoot if you must this old grey head, But spare your country's flag,' she said.

SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL; FAILURE IS NOT FATAL; IT IS THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS.

Mr. Jorrocks has described fox hunting as providing all the glory of war with only thirty-five percent of its danger.

they meant to test the ground; and in so doing they were prepared to go to the very edge of the precipice. It is so easy to lose one's balance there: a touch, a gust of wind, a momentary dizziness, and all is precipitated into the abyss.

Without Courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

It is said by several authorities that on being in the saddle he declared, "This day I conquer or die." Nothing was more unlike him. Months before in England he had used such words to Wratislaw, and assuredly they did not go beyond the truth. But, arrived at the point of action, it is more probable that he made some considerate inquiry about his horse's forage or his man's rations.

but in front of all, as a special recognition of their devoted valour, marched the Dublin Fusiliers, few, but proud.

if only the Generals had not been content to fight machine-gun bullets with the breasts of gallant men, and think that that was waging war.

Nothing…is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

If you are a great general,' said Pompaedius Silo to Marius, 'come down and fight.' 'If you are a great general,' was the famous answer, 'make me fight against my will.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. I see that a speaker at the weekend said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

all the great struggles of history have been won by superior will-power wresting victory in the teeth of odds or upon the narrowest of margins.

Never, never, never, never give up