Quotes About Courage

In Judges, Gideon asks God how to choose his men for battle. The Lord told Gideon to take his men down to the river and drink. The men who flopped down on their bellies and drank like dogs were no good to him. Gideon watched as some of his men knelt down and drank with their heads watching the horizon, spears in hand. Though they were few, they were the men he needed. You've always been one of the few, James. Keep watching the horizon.

Interrupted by blood, bile, and sticky white slivers of bone and brain were the words Pamwe Chete; the gift from Rich Hastings had taken another soul.

Jack Coughlin

I succeeded because I didn't know that I couldn't.

Another thing is that if a position doesn't feel right as soon as you put it on, don't be embarrassed to change your mind and get right out.

Champions get up when they can't.

A champion is someone ho gets up, een when he can't

A champion is someone who gets up when they can't

Just remember, that the people who sneer or quip are afraid too. Afraid of your ideas.

These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross the line, there's no coming back. Mark my words.

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

The women at Dachau knew they were about to be gassed when they pushed back the Nazi guard who wanted to die with them, saying he must live. And sang for a little while after the doors closed.

Without bravery, we will never be able to realize the vaulting scope of our own capacities. Without bravery, we will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, our lives will remain small - far smaller than we probably want our lives to be.

Using a daring and audacious method, the citizens of Konstanz in Germany managed to prevent allied forces from dropping a single bomb on their city during the Second World War... they left all of their lights on at night! As the city is very close to the border with Switzerland - who were neutral in the war - the allied forces assumed the city was Swiss, and didn't target it.

During the Second World War, the good people of the great Mosque in Paris looked after many of the city's Jewish population, supplying them with Muslim identity certificates so they would not be taken away to concentration camps.

Theodore Roosevelt (after whom the Teddy Bear

and continued to lead his men; as you would imagine, his demonstration

Well, let's put it this way, you'll be a major by nightfall or dead

In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves There's no need for rain It's our own parade Let's not be afraid of our reflections It's not only you you're looking at now

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life." –

We need leaders of conviction who have diverse constituencies always in mind, who carefully consider the larger contexts of their words and deeds. We need people who aren't afraid to stand for what they believe in, but who also recognize the privilege of their position. We need leaders who hold themselves accountable to their peers – leaders of great fortitude and great integrity.