A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

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.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Boldness be my friend.

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

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.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

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

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

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

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.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

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.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

I am fearless.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

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

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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

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

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.