Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

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

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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

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

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I am a tough guy.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

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

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

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.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

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

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.