Courage Quotes

If courage is the first characteristic of the soldier, perseverance is the second.

The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only the second; hardship, poverty, and want are the best school of the soldier.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

A general of ordinary talent, occupying a bad position and surprised by a superior force, seeks his safety in retreat; but a great captain supplies all deficiencies by his courage, and marches boldly to meet the attack. By this means he disconcerts his adversary, and if this last shows any irresolution in his movements, a skilful leader, profiting by his indecision, may even hope for victory.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Gentleness, good treatment, honor the victor and dishonor the vanquished, who should remain aloof and owe nothing to pity - In war, audacity is the finest calculation of genius.

Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity.

We Americans of today, together with our allies, are passing through a period of supreme test. It is a test of our courage - of our resolve - of our wisdom - our essential democracy.

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.