The coward only threatens when he is safe.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

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

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Silence is safer than speech.

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 gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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!

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Freedom lies in being bold.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

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.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.