The coward only threatens when he is safe.

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

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

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.

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

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

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

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

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

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

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.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

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

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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.

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.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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.