Quotes About Courage

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

Le mot impossible n'est pas français.

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

concentration of strength, activity, and a firm resolve to perish gloriously.

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.

the first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue

We are waging war as generous enemies, and we wish only to crush the tyrants who enslave you.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

I have to say it: I didn't have the courage.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

The word impossible is not French.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.