“Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 229 of 1106
“I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans.”
“The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.”
“Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.”
“There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.”
“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.”
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”
“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.”
“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
“Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.”
“Fences are made for those who cannot fly.”
“Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.”
“Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.”
“Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”
“The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.”
“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.”
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”
“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.”
“And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.”