Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.
Real heroes don't wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!
Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.
Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
In Washington DC, most of the honest and courageous people are statues.
I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to all manner of endeavors that only really require skill, fortitude and a little daring, the qualities Pat Tillman showed on the football field. Pat's best service to his country was to remind us all what courage really looks like, and that the purpose of all good courage is love.
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
