“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
More from Ronald Reagan on Courage
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”
Others on Courage
Martin Luther King
11 quotes“If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
Sir Winston Churchill
9 quotes“So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me...”
Erica Jong
8 quotes“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
Plautus
7 quotes“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage compri...”
Veronica Roth
7 quotes“Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.”
Seneca
6 quotes“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
Brené Brown
6 quotes“Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.”
Audre Lorde
6 quotes“When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
6 quotes“Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.”
Cervantes
6 quotes“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.”
Napoleon
6 quotes“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.”
Plutarch
5 quotes“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”