“Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 260 of 1106
“For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly.”
“Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.”
“Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side”
“Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.”
“Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.”
“Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.”
“Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
“To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble”
“What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.”
“Merely to exist is not enough.”
“The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."”
“Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.”
“Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.”
“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
“We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.”
“For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.”
“The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.”
“You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.”
“Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.”