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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.