When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to f

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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Death
category

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies. – Alex Winter

Category:
Death

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. – Michel de Montaigne

Category:
Death

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. – Robert Falcon Scott

Category:
Death

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. – Abu Bakr

Category:
Death

Random Quotes

I dont think its always good to read lots of poetry. – Amber Tamblyn

Category:
Poetry

Patrick Henry did not say, Give me absolutely safety or give me death. America is supposed to be about freedom. – John Stossel

Category:
Death

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. – Frantz Fanon

Category:
Fanaticism

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You cant invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. – David Herbert Lawrence

Category:
Art