Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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

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

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

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.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

All great peoples are conservative.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

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.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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

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

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!

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

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

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.