"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."

Courage, Compromise, Devotion, Duty

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Courage quotes

"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Courage, Truth, Inspirational, Power, Happiness

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Courage, Valor, Will

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Courage, Criticism, Fear, Silence, Inaction

"I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Courage, Sunshine, Fear, Life

"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Courage, Life, Danger, Man

"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."

Robert Tew, American Writer

Courage, Strength, Worth, LettingGo, Realization

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Courage, Faith, First

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Courage, Fear

"When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Courage, Fear, Faith, Journey

"Better hazard once than always be in fear."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Courage, Fear, Risk, Hazard

Explore more quotes by John Keegan

"There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force."

People

"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."

Leadership

"I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books."

Writing

"The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need."

Man

"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"

People

"Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people."

Man

"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."

People

"It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help."

Education

"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."

Courage

"Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?"

Man