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

Freedom lies in being bold.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

There is always safety in valor.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Political courage is not political suicide.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Boldness be my friend.

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.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

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.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

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

One man with courage is a majority.

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

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

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.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

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.

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

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

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

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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.

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

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.