In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a...

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a...

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.

A pilot who signs up to fly through the eye of a storm doesn't complain of the turbulence.

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!

Rilke wrote in one of my favourite books {Letters to a Young Poet}, "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps...

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.

Only those who never stand up, never fall down.

The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks.

We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Then Samson said, 'With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand of them.'

A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the...

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

Courage is stepping forward when all you can see is darkness.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

You belong to the world. Don't be afraid to be a part of it.

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which it causes us, now to confront unjust power,...

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

I don't know about you, but I want God to reveal the second step before I take the first step of faith. But I've discovered that if I don't take the first step, God generally won't reveal the next...

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

"That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty."

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.