Quotes About Courage

How he learned to distinguish fear from the impostor, being afraid. Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Someone described us as the shadow warriors.

It's unbelievable what you can do when the threat to your own life is that bad.

Honor, Courage, Commitment, the motto of the United States Navy,

If I don't write it, no one will ever understand the indomitable courage under fire of those three Americans. And that would be the biggest tragedy of all.

And when they saw the somewhat extravagant tattoo I have on my back — a half of a SEAL Trident (Morgan has the other half) — they damn near fainted.

Remember the philosophy of the U.S. Navy SEALs: "I will never quit...My Nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates...I am never out of the fight." Those

No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets or how hard you fall, you are NEVER out of the fight.

The Warrior Elite,

I'm trained in weapons, demolition, and unarmed combat. I'm a sniper, and I'm the platoon medic. But most of all, I'm an American.

Those instructors have watched men drop, watched them fail, watched them quit, and watched them quietly, with ice-cold, expressionless faces. That's not heartless; it's because they were only interested in the others, the ones who did not crack or quit. The ones who would rather die than quit. The ones with no quit in them.

The only way out of hell is to walk right through it. When you do, it always helps to have your brothers by your side.

Bobby was a hero, and so were Luisa and Val and all the rest of them. But it's only in movies that heroes get to count on the big moment of glorious sacrifice. Real life is messier than that.

Initiative, combined with

The more we fear, the more we need them. And the more we need them, the more powerful they get.

Protecting America is not a job for the squeamish.

The difference between a thug and a soldier, the guy had said, was the moral courage of his cause.

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.

First they came for the revolutionaries, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a revolutionary. Then they came for the intellectuals, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't an intellectual. Then they came for the tier ones, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a tier one. Then they came for the brilliants, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a brilliant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

made it my business to be tough in the ways that they were tough—on the inside, where it counted. The

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

I am scared almost all the time. But I never tell anyone. I can't afford to. I have to go on pretending I'm this confident person, because if I don't, if I'm quiet, I become invisible.