“I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 252 of 1106
“A general must be a charlatan.”
“A starving army is actually worse than none.”
“The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory”
“The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.”
“True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.”
“The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.”
“Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.”
“Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.”
“No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.”
“I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.”
“I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.”
“One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.”
“I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”
“Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.”
“Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.”
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
“Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.”
“You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.”
“I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.”