courage

"We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!"

"It has to be the legislation itself, it has to be big bold and strong. If Republicans work with us to get good strong legislation then yes... but look at 2008 where we spent a year and a half trying t…"

"White: You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and ther…"

"Remembering Ellen Willis, Rock 'n' Roll Feminist Superhero" by Suzy Hansen, New York Observer"

"Polarization will continue to hamper efforts to address the pandemic. It will encourage and facilitate foreign interference in U.S. domestic politics ....and it makes other states warier of making lon…"

"I want a world of brave and courageous people. Indeed, those who work hard and are agnostics are more acceptable, for a time, than lazy spiritual hypocrites."

"They are afraid of nothing," I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. "Together they would brave Satan and all his legions."

"Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it."

"The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them."

"Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :("

"Jahangir, when a prince, at one time intended demolishing some of the Hindu temples at Banaras but desisted there from on Man Singh's intervention. In his reign conversions to Islam were encouraged, c…"

"When the chancellor imagines I have the inclination to become his successor, he is mistaken tremendously. Right now, I wish that he continue holding his office and that he sees for himself how poorly …"

"Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all …"

"Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the vid…"

"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged."

"What counts most is holding on. The growth of a train of thought is not a direct forward flow. There is a succession of spurts separated by intervals of stagnation, frustration, and discouragement. If…"

"...they were set off on a thousand mile march—called to this day "the trail of tears" by the Cherokee—that was one of the notable death marches in history."

"She knew he was telling his soul what it needed to hear so that he could gather his courage to go and go what he must"

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

"Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute."