Corazon Aquino Quotes

I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

What I do and what I love, I don't betray that. Sometimes people say you have to tolerate it. No, you have to do what you think necessary, what your heart tells you, and go where the Almighty leads you.

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

I do what I believe.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.