“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 78 of 1106
“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.”
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.”
“We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.”
“We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.”
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
“We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”
“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”
“I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.”
“The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.”
“It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.”
“Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
“Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.”
“Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.”
“Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?”
“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”