Quotes About Courage

Why did you come here?" he asked at last "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here." If I was going to die, I was going to go in true Rose style

but if you get a chance to be the baddest and strongest, always be the baddest and strongest.

That was nothing. I've talked myself out of much worse.

And as I did it, it was like pierc­ing my own heart at the same time.

Being next to him like this made me feel as though everything really would be okay. Not because he'd fix things for me, but because I was reminded of the good in my life and why I had to fight for it. I won't admit defeat again.

is the only escape plan we need.

My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil.

I decided to play up what I had. I retied my bow tie and put the tuxedo jacket back on. "Let's do this," I said to the waiting guardians.

Dark times were ahead of us, but with his kiss still burning on my lips, I felt like I could do anything

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

Even I got turned down by girls, and when it happened, I dusted off my ego and moved on.

With a great show of courage, he stepped forward and kissed me. It was nice, though once again a little underwhelming.

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever," she'd said once. "Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

Never before in the history of warfare have so few been commanded by so many.

In one typical battalion, of forty-one officers who had landed on Sicily in July, only nine remained, and six of them had been wounded, according

As a battalion commander in France, it was said, he had once pulled a pistol on a hesitant junior officer and shot him in the buttocks. "There," Allen said. "You're out. You're wounded." Such gestures would be unnecessary here.

Tis worth the experiment. Audaces fortuna juvat"—fortune favors the bold—though he tempted fortune by adding, "Should we fail I don't see any fatal consequences which are likely to attend it.

Matthew Ridgway to command the XVIII Airborne Corps, Gavin had taken over the 82nd in mid-August. At thirty-seven he would be not only the youngest major general in the U.S. Army during World War II, but also the youngest division commander since the Civil War. That achievement was all the more remarkable given his start in life. Gavin was an orphan (he later concluded that his mother had been

Even Colonel Lang, watching the Americans from the other side of Djebel Naemia, had been surprised by their timid initial approach to the Maknassy heights; a more forceful attack, he concluded, could have shortened the Tunisian campaign by weeks. In his view, the Americans appeared reluctant to risk heavy casualties in a decisive battle, preferring to crush their foes with material superiority even if that meant extending the fight. There was truth in that assessment too.

blared "The Stars and Stripes Forever," clearly audible on the hillcrest, where a lieutenant who was immune to the prevailing confidence of his seniors murmured, "'Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.

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Handed the reins to a big brown New England mare, Revere swung into the saddle and took off at a canter across Charlestown Neck, hooves striking sparks, rider and steed merged into a single elegant creature, bound for glory.

A German pilot came out of his plane, drew his legs into a ball, his head down. Papers flew out of his pockets. He did a triple somesault through our formation. No chute.

stirring of epitaphs, "Mort pour la liberté." After viewing a military cemetery near Ste.-Mère-Église, a soldier on August 28 scribbled lines from A. E. Housman in his diary: "The saviors come not home tonight: Themselves they could not save.