Quotes About Courage In Battle

#1. Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one. - Author: Catherine M. Wilson

#2. No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle. - Author: Bertrand Russell

#3. Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. - Author: William Butler Yeats

#4. Cowardice and courage are just labels - words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That - Author: Joseph Delaney

#5. No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage. - Author: George S. Patton

#6. Gallantry," he often told his men, "is an act of great courage under fire, of bravery beyond the call of duty. But if it kills your comrades as well or puts the battle in jeopardy, then it is arrant pride and foolishness. Learn to know the difference. - Author: Charles Todd

#7. It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. - Author: Prescott Bush

#8. Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become. - Author: Jim Rohn

#9. Courage in danger is half the battle. - Author: Plautus

#10. There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. - Author: Orison Swett Marden

#11. Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats. - Author: Chetan M. Kumbhar

#12. You will never develop courage if you don't stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#13. Why tell me to be reasonable when you should be telling me to be courageous? [Arlana to Dave in The Battle for Halcyon] - Author: Peter Kazmaier

#14. To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial. - Author: Charles Caleb Colton

#15. Courage in battle and courage in personal and emotional matters are often two separate attributes, and an abundance of one does not necessarily translate into an ample amount of the other. - Author: R.A. Salvatore

#16. It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage. - Author: Ernst Junger

#17. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands. - Author: George S. Patton

#18. Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence. - Author: John F. Kennedy

#19. I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in. - Author: Woodrow Wilson

#20. We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city. - Author: Rachel L. Schade

#21. It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown ... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success. - Author: Alice Foote MacDougall

#22. Sometimes is not in the battle field where truth and courage only shows. You can win in any place with the help of your courage. - Author: Auliq Ice

#23. If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace. - Author: Thomas A Kempis

#24. To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart. - Author: Sallust

#25. Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. - Author: Annie Besant

#26. The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat. - Author: Chester W. Nimitz

#27. The greatest battle is not physical but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always be answered by the quiet the steady dignity that simply refuses to give in. Courage. We all suffer. Keep going. - Author: Graeme Fife

#28. Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. - Author: Mary Wesley

#29. If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand - always. - Author: Storm Constantine

#30. It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. - Author: Rollo May

#31. I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. - Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

#32. In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat. - Author: Shatrujeet Nath