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

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

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.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

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.

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

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.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Freedom lies in being bold.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

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.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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.

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

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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

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

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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

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

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.

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!

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

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

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

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

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

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

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

He who is brave is free.

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.

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

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

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

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 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.