Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

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

The only way round is through.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

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

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

Americans never quit.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

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

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

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

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Fear is the mother of morality.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.