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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.
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There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
