Peggy Lee Quotes

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Mr. [Winston] Churchill has been one of the few—the very few—who have significantly and beneficently affected the course of events … How seldom can this be said of anyone.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, is to have been a hero.

Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men, Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done.

If you're the leader, you have to communicate the message of immortality to your people. Because I believe if a leader hides behind a rock, then the people will hide behind a mountain.

Courage breeds leadership.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

A nation without heroes is nothing.