Courage and Strength

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually to be fearing you will make one.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Never give in—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—except to convictions of honor and good sense.