Quotes About Courage

awakened her.

if a man ain't got the heart inside, it don't make no difference how big around the chest he measures.

he had avoided the full brunt of danger and still retained his dignity. And

He softened his voice. "Gaspar," he said, "keep your head up. Make up your mind that you'll fight to the last gasp. Why, it makes me plumb sick to see a grown man give up like you do!

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Use your head; cut off theirs.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

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I don't come with the wheelchair. The wheelchair comes with me.

Max E. Anders

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

You may be amazed at how tough you can become with a little practice – and that will be an extra reward of the risk-taker's way of life.

No matter how you define success, risk is a necessary ingredient of every successful life. Risk puts you in position to win.

In action, there was a fine line between courage which heartened others and bluster which incurred their contempt.

Courage is essentially competitive and imitative.

Optimism is the elixir of life for the weak.

Soldiers may accept a need to be the first to die in a war, but there is often an unseemly scramble to avoid becoming the last.

William Slim, a shrewd, rugged Gurkha officer who would eventually show himself to be Britain's ablest general of the

Winston Churchill, the towering personality of the forces of light.

All active-minded men the world over are boys at heart, be they generals or privates, and there are few things more stimulating or conducive to high morale and self-confidence than the knowledge that you have been chosen to do something about which others know nothing and which calls for a high standard of efficiency, integrity and courage. Basically, I suppose, it is conceit – a buccaneer complex.

Horace Walpole wrote in the mid-eighteenth century: 'No great country was ever saved by good men, because good men will not go to the lengths that may be necessary.

though a pilot once panicked and baled out over Germany, leaving the rest of his crew to bring the plane home.

At 50 Squadron, there was another verse for the intelligence officer's long epic verse, set to the tune of Noel Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen": When the sirens moan to awake Cologne They shiver in their shoes; In the Berlin street they're white as sheets With a tinge of Prussian blues;

The cost in men and ships Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ran up a score which Irish eyes a-smiling on the day of Allied victory were not going to cancel