You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

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

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.