Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness, and France is saved.

[It] is better to live one single day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

I don't think I am hero material.

Brave, bold people, these are what we want.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Calculation never made a hero.

The more wit the less courage.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

I love taking challenges, as my name Leander means 'lion's heart.'

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.