Quotes About Courage

Many of the most heroic deeds of the war were performed by small, isolated groups of soldiers, unaware of the situation, without adequate equipment or support, who stood and battled it out with the Germans until overwhelmed.

Were we daring enough to take the "hero's journey" and become agents for the future? Or were our individual identities so dependent on our existing competencies and skills-and so entwined with the established structure-that change, deep or otherwise, was simply not an option?

She was no pushover. That was for sure. She was strong, opinionated, easy to underestimate and misunderstand. She had her own ideas about duty and honor and she kept to her principles even with a gun at her back.

If the Germans come', Marshal Smigly-Rydz9 had stated only a month before, in August 1939, 'we lose our freedom. If the Russians come, we lose our souls.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

It was blowing a blizzard. He [Capt. Lawrence E. G. Oates] said, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds;

To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.

Wars are won in the will.

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.

At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.

En marzo del 2003, Rachel Corrie, una joven estadounidense que había viajado a Gaza para intentar evitar que los israelíes destruyeran hogares palestinos, se plantó frente a una excavadora Caterpillar israelí para obligar al conductor a detenerse. Pero la arrolló. Y volvió a pasar por encima de ella. Cuando sus amigos corrieron en su ayuda, dijo: «Me he partido la espalda», y murió.

character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited

Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have

Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.