The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.
Discover Your Inner Courage: Quotes to Empower You - page 39
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Kathryn Bigelow
In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.
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Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.
Lee Kuan Yew
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.
Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.
Roger Ailes
As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.
Akhenaton
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
James Neil Hollingworth
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else.
John Assaraf
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
George S. Patton
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Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
Taisen Deshimaru
