Quotes about Courage

Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.' Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.' And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.

They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?

But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

Why can't you be a fatalist about it the way I am? If I'm destined to unload these lighters at a profit and pick up some Egyptian cotton cheap from Milo, then that's what I'm going to do. And if you're destined to be killed over Bologna, then you're going to be killed, so you might just as well go out and die like a man. I hate to say this, Yossarian, but you're turning into a chronic complainer

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory

If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don't be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid