O. R. Melling Quotes

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

This world is not for cowards.

As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you-at this time of your life and in this world-will need particularly. That attribute is courage.

You can't have bravery without fear...

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

Better to face the bear than run from it.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

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.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

The world has no room for cowards.

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 courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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.