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

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I give opinions, not advice.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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

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.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

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

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

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 would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.