“Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 225 of 1106
“If you're explaining, you're losing.”
“Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.”
“Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.”
“Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.”
“How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.”
“...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.”
“Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!”
“I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more.”
“What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
“Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”
“What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.”
“Only the poor are handicapped by honor.”
“There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.”
“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”
“In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.”
“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”
“It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.”
“He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.”