The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I...

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

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.

He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might directly counter to the wishes of his superiors. He must have...

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for - first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly - sometimes annoy - ingly - curious and...

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.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

Be real. I'm going up against three of the world's most vicious ubervillains. I have a very, very slim chance of survival. I have a better chance of winning the lottery, and I don't even play.

She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the...

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.

Just because anyone can, doesn't mean everyone can.

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!'

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

Only those who never stand up, never fall down.

I don't know what we're doing here – you and me … I don't know what we are or what we can be, but this doesn't have to be about that. This can just be about … a chance. Taking a chance.

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.

Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently holds you in the safe haven of the present without allowing you to become...