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Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little world, that will be the death of your theory. On the other hand, many of the criticisms you receive are pointless and simply reflect the view that anything new is bad. In such a delicate situation it is crucial to tread gingerly and be careful to appreciate the difference between pertinent and idiotic comments.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

My men have become women, but the women men.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.