courage

"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest."

"Then, my lords, permit me to say, that admitting the narrow and confined constitutional doctrines, which I have heard preached in this court, to be right, I am not guilty of the charge according to th…"

"Europeans brought with them the view that men were the absolute head of households, and women were to be submissive to them. It was then that the role of women in Cherokee society began to decline. On…"

"Anne Frank at the My Hero project."

"There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and di…"

"How Sergeant York Became America's Hero" by Jack Kelly in American Heritage"

"Praise — actual personal praise— oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near."

"No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter."

"The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic."

"The weak must be bold cautiously."

"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."

"In the age of the concentration camp, when from 1935 to 1947 or so, she wrote her very best novels, no writer did more to illumine the springs of human cruelty, suffering and bravery."

"But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees."

"This is why Kapoor and Balmond have emerged as embattled heroes of public art. Their Orbit tower is not consensual, or easy to make sense of. It is wild and unexpected. It is, I believe, the most exci…"

"Man is as young as the risks he takes."

"The hero wears armor, the saint is naked."

"...a thing which we can not relate without great grief and wailing, the city of Edessa...has been taken and many of the castles of the Christians occupied by them . The archbishop, moreover, of this s…"

"Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."

"Tourism is an economic activity that leverages on the beauty that our Creator willed to us. It will also encourage development of the far reaches of our country. And it would complement efforts to pro…"

"So-called electronic communities encourage participation in fragmented, mostly silent, micro-groups who are primarily engaged in dialogues of self-congratulation. In other words, most people lurk; and…"