Quotes about Courage

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

This was their finest hour

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.

Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees