Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

We see your willingness to die beautifully. We don’t see the need to die beautifully.

To the brave nothing is difficult.

I don't think I am hero material.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Fear is not one of my attributes.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.