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

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

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

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.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

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!

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

There is always safety in valor.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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

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 first quality that is needed is audacity.

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.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

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.

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.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

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

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.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

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.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Political courage is not political suicide.

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

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.