Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.