Courage Quotes

[PropStop]

So i'm trying to come up with a quote for a framed picture of my brother and I in our work uniforms (he's a firefigher, I'm a per diem collector) and I've come down to these. It is to be a gift for our parents, mom's and dad's dig pics of their kids in uniform. Which do you all think i should use?

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Author: John Wayne

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Author: Mark Twain

No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
Author: Joseph Bryant (Thayendanegea of the Mohawk Tribe)

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Author: Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Author: Winston Churchill.

 

[Jolly Roger]

Those are some good quotes Prop, but I had to go with Churchill. It was a toss up between Ambrose, Churchill, and the Duke.

 

[fighterfemme24]

Hmmm... I kind of like the quote I use as a singnature best...

ps-I voted for Ambrose, though... that one is the best on the list.

 

[DCLegal]

Definitely Ambrose. Though I do like the John Wayne one too.

 

[Jolly Roger]

I like Churchill's because he put it more succintly.

 

[jg5343]

The Duke for sure. Short and sweet.

 

[metro]

The Duke's, because it's completely true, very understandable, and evokes an image of a platoon full of young Marines checking their weapons and gear nervously en route to a forward area.