We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things, who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything, and I will show you someone who is insecure.
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
He did it with all his heart, and prospered.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow, and of the man who leads, that gains the victory.
It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.