Quotes About Courage

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

every decent man confronted by a totalitarian regime ought to have the pluck to commit high treason.

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

All bullies are cowards!

Whose mouse are you?" Nobody's mouse. "Where is your mother?" Inside a cat. "Where is your father?" Caught in a trap.

In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look.

Many dead divers have been found inside shipwrecks with more than enough air remaining to have made it to the surface. It is not that they chose to die, but rather that they could no longer figure out how to live.

In the United States, of the ten million certified scuba divers, it is likely that only a few hundred dive deep for shipwrecks. To those few, it is not a matter of if they will taste death, only of whether they'll swallow.

If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say which of the three outcomes is worst.

He rolled with the unexpected—and much was unexpected on Seeker trips—because he believed in "No matter what.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." Texas senator Lyndon Baines Johnson was

Valor represents bravery and strength of character, boldness, and fortitude - all qualities that prepare a person to act responsibly in times of need, of challenge, or of danger.

That he has an unconquerable spirit, that he has great courage, that he is fearless, that he takes responsibility for his actions, and that he has self-discipline. Discipline means that he has the rigor to develop control and mastery over his mind and over his body, and that he has the capacity to withstand pain, both psychological and physical. He is willing to suffer to achieve what he wants to achieve.

Real strategists are warriors and must be willing and able to fight battles, to "see the elephant," as Civil War soldiers were fond of saying.

That woman," Bandar liked to say of the British prime minister, "was a hell of a man.

This is the terror I mean; this is the terror that strangles reason with the clawing hands of panic. I saw it twice, I felt it pluck at me twice. But it was rare. It claimed few victims. Courage was a commonplace.

It is glorious to drink the wine of the enemy.

All the logic seemed to be on our side. The Marine Corps seemed a madness.

Our muddy machine gun pits were transformed into Courage Clubs when bombs fell or Japanese warships pounded us from the sea. There was protocol to be observed, too, and it was natural that the poor fellow who might break into momentary terror should cause pained silence and embarrassed coughs. Everyone looked the other way, like millionaires confronted by the horrifying sight of a club member borrowing five dollars from the waiter.

Robert Leckie

Keep vaunting head over heart, and soon the head will arrive at the complete folly of any kind of fight and meekly surrender the treasure to the first bandit with enough heart to demand it.