#courage

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority."

"Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need."

"It take faith to follow your dreams and courage to reach them."

"Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will."

"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner."

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

"It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always."

"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life."

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."

"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

"it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded."

"Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with."

"The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."

"When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?"

"I remember her words about remembering my words, and that’s when it hit me: the quickest way to scalpel open a heart is with a declaration of love."

"There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul."

"Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience."

"She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble."