Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

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.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

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

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!

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

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.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

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

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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

Boldness be my friend.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

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.

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

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

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!

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

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

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

There is always safety in valor.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There’s a select few that will never like me. They don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They’re going to be negative no matter what.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.