Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

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.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

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

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

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.

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

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

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

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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.

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.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

There is always safety in valor.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

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.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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

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.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

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

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.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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!

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

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.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.