Chester W. Nimitz Quotes

We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

No doubt Jean Bart does not talk like you, but who of you could act like Jean Bart?

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Courage is action, not talk.

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.

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

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.