Quotes About Courage

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

For each and for all, as for the Royal Navy, the watchword should be, "Carry on, and dread nought."

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors, and airmen, who side by side with ours are carrying on their task to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Let us… brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.