“The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 271 of 1106
“It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.”
“It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.”
“Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
“We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.”
“So long as there are men, there will be wars.”
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
“If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights”
“And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.”
“Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself”
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.”
“If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.”
“Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.”
“Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.”
“It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.”
“Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.”
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
“But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant”