“I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 186 of 1106
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
“Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.”
“I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.”
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”
“America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...”
“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.”
“Let my enemies devour each other.”
“We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.”
“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.”
“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
“Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.”
“Life without the courage to die is slavery.”
“Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.”
“People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.”
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
“This is a universe that does not favor the timid.”
“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
“Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.”
“Detachment is the beginning of mastery.”