Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.
None are so blind as those who will not see.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Soldiers, strike the foe in the face!
Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Courage is a quietness, not martial music made Born of facing up to life, even when afraid.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
No blame should attach to telling the truth.
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.
You're only as sick as your secrets.
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
