“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 109 of 1106
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.”
“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”
“You don't need a bus pass, for me to bust yo ass, nigga.”
“The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
“Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.”
“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.”
“A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.”
“It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.”
“In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother”
“Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.”
“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”
“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
“All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”
“War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace.”
“With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.”
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
“Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.”