It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

From caring comes courage.

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

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.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

He would make a lovely corpse.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.