Battle Courage Quotes

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

Not to turn back in battle, to protect the people, to honor the Brahmans [educated classes], is the best means for a king to secure happiness.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

Never did I charge into battle with the hope of returning safe This is the way of my ancestors The roots beget the stems

Piracy was risky business, and injuries were commonplace; a single lost limb or gouged-out eye could end a pirate's career. To encourage pirates not to hesitate in battle - and out of a sense of fairness - many pirate crews compensated wounded crewmen in predetermined amounts.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.