Ronald Reagan Quotes

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

A man's measure is his will.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

In life, you need some backbone. You need to stand for something.

A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.