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

Courage is found in unlikely places.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

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

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

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

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

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.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

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

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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

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.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

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

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

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

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power… because it’s obvious that it’s them I’m criticizing, but they can’t show that in front of the cameras. It’s quite funny sometimes.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

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

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Plato was a bore.

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.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.