Echoes

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

If you're afraid — don't do it. If you're doing it — don't be afraid.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.