Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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.

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.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

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.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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

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.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

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.

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

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

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

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

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

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

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

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.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

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

He who is brave is free.

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

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

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

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.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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!

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

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

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

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

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.