“Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.”

Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Don’t be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Vices are their own punishment.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

For the heart that needs a dose of courage don’t run, don’t hide, don’t fear, hold on.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

Now is the time for guts and guile.

Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.

Courage is the commitment to being without any guarantee of success.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it’s sad and smiles when it’s happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin’ takes courage.

Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?