Quotes About Battle

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

….it was a brave man's fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.

Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.

Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

Tu?i già không ph?i là má»™t tr?n chi?n; tu?i già là má»™t cuá»™c th?m sát

We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God's followers are called to be part of the solution.

He had found his vocation: to fight the Lord's battles in the Academy and the world at large.

Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.

She doesn't realize yet though men go to war it is the women who suffer--perhaps more than anyone.

She smiles. "You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle"—I gasp but her smile is steady—"if there is a battle, then either your husband will win, and your son will take the throne; or your brother will win and you will be sister to the king.