Quotes About Courage

Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

It should be dangerous to attack a warrior, but when we turn our protectors into cowed puppies, they sometimes do not even have the spirit to defend themselves from the kicks of an ungrateful public. And in the end, they may not be able to protect us and our loved ones at the moment of truth. It

Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation)

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

Sometimes you have to act a little crazy just to stay sane.

The patients there were mostly teenaged girls, with the occasional boy. I thought of us all as tigers with thorns in our paws. We were beautiful beasts who'd gotten injured by life, by loss or trauma or shock, and if we could just get the splinters out of our paws, we'd be fine. My thorn was the fact that my mother had left me. Megan

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

It is easy to hire someone else to do work for us—someone to clean, someone to tend the garden—but no one can take our place along that road that leads to the conquest of our fears, so that we can adapt to the world and find our right place in it.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni

From Iolcus the sea was first challenged, when the untried Argo scorned the shore and brought together nations that before were strangers; she first matched mankind against the raging winds and waves of ocean, and by her means a new form of death was added to the old.

The man prepared to die will not be beaten cheaply.

Death, would that you scorned to take the coward's life, And came only to valour!

Risk should not reflect a celebration of foolishness but a freedom from fear.

Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.

I used to be terrified of going to the bathroom until Uncle John taught me to start at the front door, whisper over and over to myself, "God will take care of me. God will take care of me," and run like hell.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Tough people don't die easily. You'll be surprised how much it takes to kill a strong human being.

I had survived that; I would survive this; survival did not mean enjoyment.

Everyone's scared of something. Not everyone has the courage to admit it.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.