When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.