Quotes About Courage

Quoique sans patrie et sans roi, Et très brave ne l'étant guere, J'ai voulu mourir à la guerre. La mort n'a pas voulu de moi.

So be brave in the face of death; be sad at leaving, but don't let those by your final emotions. Let it be gratitude for the life you had. And even if you think there's no one to hear you, say "Thank You.

A coward dies many times. A brave man never tastes of death but once.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

It has always seemed to me that there is something big to be felt by a man who has made up his mind to leave the things he knows and go off to strange places.

It has always seemed to me that there is something big to be felt by a man who has made up his mind to leave the things he knows and go off to strange places. I felt the same for the rose cuttings I took from the garden down to the cemetery. But men are different from flowers for they are able to make up their own minds about things. And that should make the feeling bigger, I think.

This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.

Goddamn your bones, that is the first step.

I want you all to understand about moral courage. I know it is not easy. We are trained to fight men, not lies. We are trained to face death and wounds, not public scorn. But to win this fight against lies, we must find the moral courage to endure public scorn and even personal indignities without flinching or retaliating. That is the sacrifice the service of our nation demands of us now. I know we all have the moral courage to make it.

This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand---how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.

A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that.

The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.

Do you run away or toward?

This is her freedom. This one. The freedom to be equal to the terrors of the day.

When the people come for you, your choice is already made. All you can do is lift up the light God sets in your hand. That light don't belong to you anyway. It's not yours to hide.

What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump?

She once told me that no matter how much bad stuff she had to deal with during the day, if she said those words before bed, she'd be ready for anything the next morning.

Down another branch, this one, she shouts, "Here's to unsuicide," and flings the cup of swirling green over the gasping audience.

There are so many names for the thing that everyone is scared to death of, and everyone wants to tell you theirs.

It depends on a person's ability to say nevertheless, to do one small thing that seems beyond them, and, for a moment, break the grip of time.

It's a daring step, but in the world game, no daring is fatal. The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.

The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.