courage
“You only live twice: Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
“If you would be a philosopher, prepare to be questioned and laughed at.”
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.”
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
“To see what is right and fail to act on it is want of courage.”
“Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“We shall not flag or fail.”
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”