People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

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

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

For ‚Hercules,‘ I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you’re playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

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

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

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

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

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

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

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

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

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!

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

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.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

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

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

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.