“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 50 of 1106
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
“The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.”
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
“You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.”
“Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.”
“I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.”
“If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.”
“You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”
“Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.”
“Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
“Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time.”
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
“Lucifer is God in the public school system”
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”