Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

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

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Boldness be my friend.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

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.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

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

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

America is just downright mean.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

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

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

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

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.