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

Truth is what works.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

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

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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 pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Real living is living for others.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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

He who is brave is free.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

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

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

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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!

I don’t know if I’m selfless – I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that’s not completely selfless. But the truth is I’m not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That’s always been how I am.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

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.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

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

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

You give before you get.