Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.