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Winston Churchill | Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. | 6 |
Walt Disney | All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. | 33 |
Lao Tzu | Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. | 101 |
Harry S Truman | America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. | 101 |
Michelle Obama | You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. | 101 |
T. S. Eliot | Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. | 101 |
Dennis Prager | Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. | 101 |
Barbara De Angelis | We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. | 101 |
Bethany Hamilton | Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of. | 101 |
Clare Boothe Luce | Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. | 101 |
Earl Nightingale | All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. | 101 |
Frances Wright | If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. | 101 |
Francis Ford Coppola | You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. | 101 |
Frank Crowninshield | Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. | 101 |
Geraldine Brooks | September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. | 101 |
Grace Paley | Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. | 101 |
Laura Schlessinger | Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. | 101 |
Mary McLeod Bethune | We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. | 101 |
Maxwell Maltz | Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. | 101 |
Nicholas M. Butler | Optimism is the foundation of courage. | 101 |
Orison Swett Marden | There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. | 101 |
Peter Carey | I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me. | 101 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. | 101 |
Ricky Martin | Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. | 101 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. | 101 |
Valerie Jarrett | We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together. | 101 |
Benjamin Banneker | Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. | 101 |
Brian Sandoval | We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility. | 101 |
Burgess Owens | As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores. | 101 |
Colin Firth | We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one. | 101 |
Eddie Albert | Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding. | 101 |
Edith Evans | I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage. | 101 |
Hallie Ephron | Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline. | 101 |
Jim Hightower | The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. | 101 |
Leonard Mlodinow | One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself. | 101 |
Lydia M. Child | None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. | 101 |
Mary Tyler Moore | Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. | 101 |
Mickey Mantle | A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. | 101 |
Robert Dale Owen | There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. | 101 |
Sean Penn | We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. | 101 |
Tommy Douglas | Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. | 101 |
Willy Brandt | It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it. | 101 |
Cecelia Ahern | Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different. | 101 |
Cherry Jones | If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader. | 101 |
Clay Aiken | My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. | 101 |
Elias Hicks | Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. | 101 |
Jonas Salk | Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. | 101 |
Paul Bremer | I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. | 101 |
Rahul Dravid | I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. | 101 |
Terri Clark | The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. | 101 |
Whitney M. Young | Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. | 101 |
William Alexander | Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. | 101 |
Abu Bakar Bashir | There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them. | 101 |
Albert Claude | For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. | 101 |
Andrew Shue | Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. | 101 |
Bill Hunter | There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage. | 101 |
Carol P. Christ | Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. | 101 |
Ellen Bass | So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets. | 101 |
Herbert Kaufman | Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. | 101 |
Jairam Ramesh | There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions. | 101 |
Alexandre Vinet | Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. | 101 |
Antonio Munoz Molina | I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. | 101 |
George Konrad | You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. | 101 |
Peter Paul Rubens | My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. | 101 |
Prescott Bush | It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. | 101 |
Rhea Perlman | My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage. | 101 |
Barry Lopez | We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it. | 101 |
Dalia Mogahed | I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self. | 101 |
Gabriele D'Annunzio | Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage. | 101 |
Stephen Baker | To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. | 101 |
Tom Brown, Jr. | We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. | 101 |
Bob Richards | Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. | 101 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. | 101 |
Charles Luckman | Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. | 101 |
Coventry Patmore | To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. | 101 |
John Hockenberry | Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. | 101 |
Stanislaus I | Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. | 101 |
John F. Kerry | I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. | 101 |
Jeremy Collier | True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. | 101 |
James Harvey Robinson | Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. | 101 |
Julie Doucet | I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines. | 101 |
John Petit-Senn | True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. | 101 |
Judith McNaught | I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength. | 101 |
Eleanor Roosevelt | You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' | 102 |
Muhammad Ali | He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. | 102 |
Anais Nin | Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. | 102 |
Charlie Chaplin | Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. | 102 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | The best protection any woman can have... is courage. | 102 |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Courage is found in unlikely places. | 102 |
John Wayne | Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. | 102 |
Marcus Garvey | If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. | 102 |
Carly Fiorina | My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled. | 102 |
Charles Kennedy | Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. | 102 |
Dianne Feinstein | The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. | 102 |
Don Miguel Ruiz | Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. | 102 |
Douglas Coupland | If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. | 102 |
Eddie Rickenbacker | Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. | 102 |
Ginnifer Goodwin | It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up. | 102 |
Haile Selassie | We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. | 102 |
Henri Matisse | Creativity takes courage. | 102 |
Ian Smith | Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions. | 102 |
Ira Sachs | I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.' | 102 |
Lou Gehrig | When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know. | 102 |
Nicholas M. Butler | Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. | 102 |
Omar N. Bradley | Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. | 102 |
Orison Swett Marden | Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. | 102 |
Owen D. Young | It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove. | 102 |
Paul Keating | Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage. | 102 |
Phil Klay | I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front. | 102 |
Thornton Wilder | Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. | 102 |
Vikram Seth | In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. | 102 |
Alexander Berkman | War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. | 102 |
Bill Frist | The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect. | 102 |
David Viscott | If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. | 102 |
Emile Hirsch | Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. | 102 |
Evelyn Lauder | Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage. | 102 |
Frank Lowy | So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there. | 102 |
Kate Forsyth | I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness. | 102 |
Katherine Anne Porter | One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. | 102 |
Pardis Sabeti | My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference. | 102 |
Robert Crumb | Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. | 102 |
Ruta Sepetys | I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering. | 102 |
Wilfred Grenfell | Courage is always the surest wisdom. | 102 |
William L. Jenkins | Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought. | 102 |
Arthur Koestler | Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. | 102 |
Carmen Dell'Orefice | People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive. | 102 |
Chesty Puller | In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. | 102 |
Helen Slater | It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters. | 102 |
Jacqueline Bisset | Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. | 102 |
Jewel | Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds. | 102 |
Lindsay Duncan | You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage. | 102 |
Neal A. Maxwell | Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. | 102 |
Tony Randall | There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them. | 102 |
Walter Lord | Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. | 102 |
Withered Hand | When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple songs at home and, with a little encouragement, I got more courage and found my voice. I have people and movements who have inspired me to carry on, but I try to write about things I know, nothing too complicated, really. | 102 |
Caleb Deschanel | In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale. | 102 |
Dale Murphy | To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. | 102 |
Ellen McLaughlin | I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened. | 102 |
George A. Sheehan | Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. | 102 |
Alan Autry | Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. | 102 |
Archilochus | Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. | 102 |
Delmore Schwartz | Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. | 102 |
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live. | 102 |
John Slattery | I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed. | 102 |
Mary Daly | Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. | 102 |
Patrick Campbell | There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. | 102 |
Samuel E. Morison | With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction. | 102 |
Ann Turner | The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times. | 102 |
Leon Blum | Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. | 102 |
Monica Ali | I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. | 102 |
Simone Signoret | Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life. | 102 |
Claron McFadden | Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability. | 102 |
Jerry Costello | With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. | 102 |
Mark McGrath | I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring. | 102 |
Sarojini Naidu | We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. | 102 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage. | 102 |
Jerome Cady | It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. | 102 |
John Keegan | Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. | 102 |
Sonia Levitin | You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage. | 102 |
Mike Ferguson | Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. | 102 |
Josefina Vazquez Mota | One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender. | 102 |
Joseph Chamberlain | Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. | 102 |
Jeff Fitzgerald | You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage. | 102 |
Nelson Mandela | I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. | 103 |
Steve Jobs | Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. | 103 |
Bruce Lee | Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. | 103 |
J. K. Rowling | It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. | 103 |
Ray Bradbury | Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. | 103 |
Andre Gide | Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. | 103 |
Georgia O'Keeffe | To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. | 103 |
W. Clement Stone | Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. | 103 |
Chester W. Nimitz | God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. | 103 |
Christian Bale | I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. | 103 |
Dan Rather | Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. | 103 |
Franklin P. Jones | Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. | 103 |
Geraldine Brooks | There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. | 103 |
Harold Prince | Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators. | 103 |
Harry Reid | It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing. | 103 |
Herman Hesse | People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. | 103 |
Marlon Brando | The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. | 103 |
Morihei Ueshiba | Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. | 103 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. | 103 |
Queen Rania of Jordan | If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together. | 103 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. | 103 |
Robert Dallek | Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. | 103 |
Robert Peel | But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. | 103 |
Susana Martinez | As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug. | 103 |
Thucydides | The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. | 103 |
Tim O'Brien | I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life. | 103 |
Adam Driver | Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people. | 103 |
Alan Cohen | It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. | 103 |
Drew Gilpin Faust | When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most. | 103 |
Giraldus Cambrensis | It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors. | 103 |
Julia Cameron | Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. | 103 |
Kim Yuna | Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need. | 103 |
Peter Fonda | The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me. | 103 |
Dave Gahan | I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form. | 103 |
Eddie Marsan | What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance. | 103 |
Elisabeth Rohm | I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist. | 103 |
James Keller | It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. | 103 |
Joe Scarborough | I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides. | 103 |
Douglas Leone | Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out. | 103 |
George Crabbe | To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. | 103 |
Horace Smith | Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. | 103 |
Kristian Bush | I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars. | 103 |
Ruby Dee | The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. | 103 |
Samuel Ullman | In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. | 103 |
Timothy Dalton | Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. | 103 |
Clyde Edgerton | Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children. | 103 |
David Alan Basche | When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed. | 103 |
Richard Hatch | I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights. | 103 |
Thomas J. Stanley | Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success. | 103 |
Ben Gazzara | It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way. | 103 |
Bryan Q. Miller | The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance. | 103 |
Major Taylor | These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained. | 103 |
Aaron Hill | Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. | 103 |
Morley | My big inspiration for hope is the courage that I read about from people from all over the world, or that I see on a daily basis from the kids I get to work with. | 103 |
Romeo LeBlanc | If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized. | 103 |
Anna Akhmatova | Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. | 103 |
James T. Walsh | For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. | 103 |
Jennifer Chiaverini | Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman. | 103 |
Anais Nin | I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. | 104 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. | 104 |
Angela Merkel | Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. | 104 |
Carl Lewis | The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. | 104 |
Jack Canfield | One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. | 104 |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. | 104 |
Maxwell Maltz | We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. | 104 |
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. | 104 |
Olga Kurylenko | To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness. | 104 |
Paul Robeson | You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. | 104 |
Van Wyck Brooks | The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. | 104 |
William Slim | Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. | 104 |
Zoe Saldana | It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial. | 104 |
Adam Driver | In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends. | 104 |
Dean Koontz | Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. | 104 |
Donella Meadows | I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes. | 104 |
Kevin Patterson | Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads. | 104 |
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus | The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. | 104 |
Ann Bancroft | A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. | 104 |
Channing Pollock | No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. | 104 |
Donald O'Connor | They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. | 104 |
Jonas Salk | There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. | 104 |
Mary Wesley | Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. | 104 |
Said Sayrafiezadeh | I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life. | 104 |
Sam Raimi | When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way. | 104 |
David Seabury | Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. | 104 |
Safak Pavey | At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey. | 104 |
Mark Pryor | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. | 104 |
Alfred P. Sloan | There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. | 104 |
Margaret Walker | Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. | 104 |
John Prendergast | I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life. | 104 |
Dale Carnegie | Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. | 105 |
Ernest Hemingway | Courage is grace under pressure. | 105 |
William Butler Yeats | Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. | 105 |
Amelia Earhart | Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. | 105 |
Brene Brown | The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. | 105 |
Bryant H. McGill | Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. | 105 |
Christopher Lee | 'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams. | 105 |
Christopher Reeve | Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. | 105 |
Erich Fromm | Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. | 105 |
Erwin Rommel | But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. | 105 |
Kathryn Bigelow | Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before. | 105 |
Marie Antoinette | Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? | 105 |
Nicholas M. Butler | Necessity does the work of courage. | 105 |
Paul Tillich | The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. | 105 |
Richard L. Evans | Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. | 105 |
Robert Falcon Scott | Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. | 105 |
Rollo May | Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. | 105 |
Saint Francis de Sales | Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. | 105 |
Thomas Szasz | Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. | 105 |
Zainab Salbi | Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences. | 105 |
Abdullah II of Jordan | Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence. | 105 |
Bart Starr | Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage. | 105 |
Emeli Sande | It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. | 105 |
Frank Capra | In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. | 105 |
Georg Brandes | Being gifted needs courage. | 105 |
Gerald Edelman | Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group. | 105 |
Joe Torre | Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result. | 105 |
Leo Rosten | Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. | 105 |
William Wells Brown | People don't follow titles, they follow courage. | 105 |
David Ben-Gurion | Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. | 105 |
Joseph Pulitzer | An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. | 105 |
Louis Nizer | I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds. | 105 |
Nick Tosches | As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option. | 105 |
William Samuel Johnson | Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. | 105 |
Andy Garcia | I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay. | 105 |
Caity Lotz | The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality. | 105 |
James Callaghan | A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. | 105 |
Rebecca Harding Davis | Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. | 105 |
Candice Millard | When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. | 105 |
Jenna Jameson | My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. | 105 |
John Milius | Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. | 105 |
Rene Cassin | And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. | 105 |
Major Taylor | I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. | 105 |
Alexandra Fuller | The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. | 105 |
Joaquin Castro | I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn't always match what you get out. | 105 |
Andre Norton | As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. | 105 |
James Norton | It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating. | 105 |
Jacques Maritain | A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things. | 105 |
John Murray | Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. | 105 |
Coco Chanel | The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. | 106 |
e. e. cummings | It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. | 106 |
Alexis de Tocqueville | Life is to be entered upon with courage. | 106 |
Benito Mussolini | War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. | 106 |
Alfred North Whitehead | True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. | 106 |
Ashton Kutcher | Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' | 106 |
Ben Okri | One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. | 106 |
Charles Caleb Colton | Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. | 106 |
Frances Perkins | Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage. | 106 |
George Gissing | Have the courage of your desire. | 106 |
George Matthew Adams | Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford. | 106 |
Helen Hayes | Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. | 106 |
James E. Faust | A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. | 106 |
Louis D. Brandeis | Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. | 106 |
Paul Johnson | Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. | 106 |
Q'orianka Kilcher | The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can. | 106 |
Torquato Tasso | Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. | 106 |
Tullian Tchividjian | The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. | 106 |
William Blackstone | Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. | 106 |
Andre Malraux | Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. | 106 |
Pam Brown | The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. | 106 |
Robert Dale Owen | Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. | 106 |
Ron Fournier | Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt. | 106 |
Henry George Bohn | Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. | 106 |
Sarah Kay | To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories. | 106 |
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj | We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it. | 106 |
Cheryl Mills | The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed. | 106 |
John Bunyan | My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. | 106 |
Brian Baird | If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. | 106 |
Rich Mullins | I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it. | 106 |
Sarah Rafferty | What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices. | 106 |
James Freeman Clarke | Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. | 106 |
Dale Carnegie | Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. | 107 |
Malala Yousafzai | The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. | 107 |
Barbara De Angelis | We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. | 107 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. | 107 |
Daniel Dennett | In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. | 107 |
Dick Cheney | It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done. | 107 |
Harper Lee | Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. | 107 |
Harry Emerson Fosdick | He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. | 107 |
Leslie Odom, Jr. | At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section. | 107 |
Mignon McLaughlin | The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. | 107 |
Muammar al-Gaddafi | We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination. | 107 |
Rollo May | The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. | 107 |
Vittorio Alfieri | Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. | 107 |
Wadah Khanfar | Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism. | 107 |
William Hurt | Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. | 107 |
Claire Denis | 'White Material' is about courage and craziness. | 107 |
Linda McCartney | Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group. | 107 |
Scott Hamilton | Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. | 107 |
Edward Albert | Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. | 107 |
Jacqueline Bisset | A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. | 107 |
Ruth Gordon | Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. | 107 |
Antony Sher | As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are. | 107 |
Bob Filner | Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. | 107 |
Joe Garcia | To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd. | 107 |
John Eldredge | Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves. | 107 |
Linda Ellerbee | I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. | 107 |
Michael Servetus | In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it. | 107 |
Barbara Cook | Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage. | 107 |
Chris Bell | I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight. | 107 |
Jalal Talabani | A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. | 107 |
John Burns | In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. | 107 |
Brene Brown | Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. | 108 |
Mike Pence | The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness. | 108 |
William Tecumseh Sherman | Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. | 108 |
Della Reese | When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming. | 108 |
Howard Cosell | Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. | 108 |
James Russell Lowell | Fate loves the fearless. | 108 |
John Quincy Adams | Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. | 108 |
Laura Linney | Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. | 108 |
Miguel de Cervantes | One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. | 108 |
Natalie Dormer | For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. | 108 |
Ronda Rousey | People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.' | 108 |
Tori Amos | Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. | 108 |
Xi Jinping | During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. | 108 |
Zach Wamp | Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11. | 108 |
E. F. Schumacher | Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. | 108 |
Jean Paul | Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. | 108 |
John C. Reilly | For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage. | 108 |
John Irving | If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. | 108 |
Petina Gappah | If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist. | 108 |
Renee Fleming | I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. | 108 |
Carson Daly | The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something. | 108 |
David Ben-Gurion | Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. | 108 |
Geraldo Rivera | The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. | 108 |
Lucy Walker | My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up. | 108 |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali | The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. | 108 |
Simon Van Booy | The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world. | 108 |
Marvin Olasky | On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut. | 108 |
Shari Sebbens | It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything. | 108 |
Douglas Fairbanks | We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming. | 108 |
Silvia Cartwright | There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. | 108 |
John M. McHugh | Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. | 108 |
Josephus Daniels | Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father. | 108 |
John Prendergast | I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. | 108 |
Winston Churchill | Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. | 109 |
Athol Fugard | Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement. | 109 |
Carl von Clausewitz | Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. | 109 |
Caroline Kennedy | I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected. | 109 |
Daisaku Ikeda | There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. | 109 |
Dan Lipinski | With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice. | 109 |
Daniel J. Boorstin | The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. | 109 |
David Letterman | There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. | 109 |
Lewis Mumford | A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. | 109 |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. | 109 |
Pablo Casals | Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. | 109 |
Ricky Martin | Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness. | 109 |
Rollo May | It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. | 109 |
Stokely Carmichael | We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. | 109 |
Vash Young | All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage. | 109 |
Wendell Phillips | Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. | 109 |
Christopher Monckton | The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing. | 109 |
Edward Hirsch | Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel. | 109 |
Gary Hamel | Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. | 109 |
George Weinberg | The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions. | 109 |
Kenneth L. Pike | Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results. | 109 |
Michael D. Higgins | Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe. | 109 |
Ralph W. Sockman | The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. | 109 |
Edwin Hubbel Chapin | At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. | 109 |
Luke Pasqualino | When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me. | 109 |
Sydney Smith | A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. | 109 |
Ann McLane Kuster | For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision. | 109 |
Bill Hybels | It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead. | 109 |
Charles Peguy | Freedom is a system based on courage. | 109 |
James Thomson | More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. | 109 |
Mercy Otis Warren | The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. | 109 |
August Strindberg | I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. | 109 |
Jonas Gahr Store | Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism. | 109 |
John Wooden | Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. | 110 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. | 110 |
Andrew Johnson | Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide. | 110 |
Edouard Manet | I would kiss you, had I the courage. | 110 |
Ellen Key | It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance. | 110 |
Logan Pearsall Smith | What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? | 110 |
Miguel de Cervantes | He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. | 110 |
Nancy Gibbs | Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. | 110 |
Scott Walker | What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. | 110 |
Vittorio Alfieri | Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. | 110 |
Carol Leifer | I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things. | 110 |
Don Young | Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic. | 110 |
Ellen Willis | My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. | 110 |
Sun Myung Moon | A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me. | 110 |
James Lane Allen | Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. | 110 |
Margaret Mitchell | With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. | 110 |
Tom Lantos | Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government. | 110 |
Daniel Ellsberg | There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. | 110 |
Jean Anouilh | It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. | 110 |
John Doolittle | With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism. | 110 |
Branch Rickey | I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. | 111 |
Dorothea Lange | I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. | 111 |
Henry Van Dyke | Genius is talent set on fire by courage. | 111 |
Jim Davis | Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. | 111 |
Kenneth Branagh | One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. | 111 |
Moliere | There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. | 111 |
Noel Coward | Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. | 111 |
Oriana Fallaci | Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. | 111 |
Paloma Faith | I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love. | 111 |
Peggy Noonan | Part of courage is simple consistency. | 111 |
Pericles | It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage. | 111 |
Plutarch | Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. | 111 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. | 111 |
Derek Cianfrance | I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger. | 111 |
Kenny Loggins | You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. | 111 |
Maria Semple | Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone. | 111 |
Nick Clooney | The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. | 111 |
Sinclair Lewis | Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. | 111 |
Tammy Baldwin | I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight. | 111 |
Tom Reiss | Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority. | 111 |
Cynthia McKinney | Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources. | 111 |
Jeff Ament | With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that. | 111 |
Michael Kinsley | He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice. | 111 |
Maya Angelou | One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. | 112 |
Thich Nhat Hanh | Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free. | 112 |
William Blake | The weak in courage is strong in cunning. | 112 |
Jim Valvano | People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. | 112 |
B. C. Forbes | He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. | 112 |
Catherine the Great | I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. | 112 |
Donna Brazile | School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals. | 112 |
Thomas Hardy | Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. | 112 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years. | 112 |
William J. H. Boetcker | You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. | 112 |
Liya Kebede | If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try. | 112 |
Robert Anthony | Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. | 112 |
Wallis Simpson | I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. | 112 |
John Ciardi | It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. | 112 |
Ken Adam | It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down. | 112 |
John Eldredge | It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. | 112 |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. | 112 |
Ray Stannard Baker | But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. | 112 |
Sal Albanese | At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing. | 112 |
Stanley Baldwin | A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. | 112 |
Eleanor Roosevelt | You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. | 113 |
Denis Waitley | Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. | 113 |
Samuel Johnson | Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. | 113 |
Gabby Douglas | Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear. | 113 |
Haile Selassie | The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. | 113 |
Ian Mcewan | One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. | 113 |
Isabella Rossellini | If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses. | 113 |
James Allen | Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. | 113 |
Kevin Rudd | Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. | 113 |
Loretta Young | I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. | 113 |
Sharon Salzberg | We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on. | 113 |
Vanessa Paradis | It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits. | 113 |
Annie Dillard | You can't test courage cautiously. | 113 |
Beth Moore | I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today. | 113 |
Eamon de Valera | When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. | 113 |
Junot Diaz | Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for. | 113 |
Plautus | Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. | 113 |
Portia de Rossi | You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy. | 113 |
Emily Greene Balch | Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. | 113 |
Maria Mitchell | I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. | 113 |
Richard Paul Evans | Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages. | 113 |
Aristotle | You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. | 114 |
Billy Graham | Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. | 114 |
Cesar Chavez | It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. | 114 |
Charles Caleb Colton | To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. | 114 |
Christian Nestell Bovee | Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. | 114 |
Dean Smith | The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. | 114 |
Giacomo Casanova | It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. | 114 |
Hans Urs von Balthasar | Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. | 114 |
James A. Michener | It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. | 114 |
Paul Tillich | Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. | 114 |
Tina Brown | The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. | 114 |
Alice Oswald | Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes. | 114 |
Burgess Owens | I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable. | 114 |
Kitty Kelley | I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer. | 114 |
Theodore Sturgeon | Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. | 114 |
Tracy K. Smith | I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey. | 114 |
Jane Campion | I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. | 114 |
Jeff Greenfield | For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend. | 114 |
John Bytheway | Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. | 114 |
Ronald Reagan | There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. | 115 |
Theodore Roosevelt | It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. | 115 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. | 115 |
Jane Goodall | My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions. | 115 |
John Steinbeck | Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. | 115 |
Joseph Stalin | In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. | 115 |
Bernie Siegel | Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day. | 115 |
Carl von Clausewitz | Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. | 115 |
Charles Lindbergh | Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? | 115 |
Estelle | You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama. | 115 |
Michael Hutchence | But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives. | 115 |
Octavia Butler | I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision. | 115 |
Tara Brach | Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort. | 115 |
Bill Frist | Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful. | 115 |
Gabrielle Giffords | People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage. | 115 |
Marian Anderson | The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow. | 115 |
Adrienne Mayor | In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them. | 115 |
Janeane Garofalo | To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. | 115 |
Meghan Markle | Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing. | 115 |
Sean Covey | Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.' | 115 |
Shilpa Shetty | I have huge respect for women who go out of their homes and have the courage to make their own destiny. And let me tell you, Indian women are doing a great job. There are those who work because they have no option but to earn, and then there are those who do it because they have the right talent. I respect both. | 115 |
Rene Cassin | The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. | 115 |
Joe Klein | Political courage requires clarity. | 115 |
Socrates | He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. | 116 |
Theodore Roosevelt | Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. | 116 |
George S. Patton | Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. | 116 |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. | 116 |
Hill Harper | The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life. | 116 |
Marlene Dietrich | Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. | 116 |
Martha Stewart | I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. | 116 |
Paul Johnson | Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman. | 116 |
Rick Perry | And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working. | 116 |
Susana Martinez | Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears. | 116 |
Thalia | Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day. | 116 |
William J. H. Boetcker | You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. | 116 |
Hosea Ballou | Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. | 116 |
Margaret Heffernan | The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. | 116 |
Nathaniel Philbrick | When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God. | 116 |
Tariq Ramadan | Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion. | 116 |
Jeff Koons | I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life. | 116 |
Mira Sorvino | Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on. | 116 |
Jenny Shipley | Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. | 116 |
Mark Twain | Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. | 117 |
Norman Schwarzkopf | True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is. | 117 |
David Whyte | Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. | 117 |
Debbie Ford | Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds. | 117 |
Ellen Key | The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action. | 117 |
Marlee Matlin | You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success. | 117 |
Orhan Pamuk | I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things. | 117 |
Pericles | Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. | 117 |
Pierre Corneille | Every man of courage is a man of his word. | 117 |
Shiv Khera | Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children. | 117 |
William Congreve | There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. | 117 |
Mary Tyler Moore | I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes. | 117 |
Tadashi Yanai | I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me. | 117 |
Sally Phillips | I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage. | 117 |
Sharad Pawar | I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English. | 117 |
Sydney Smith | Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. | 117 |
Stanley Marcus | Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.' | 117 |
Jean Anouilh | Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. | 117 |
Mo Yan | I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion. | 117 |
Judith Light | I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out. | 117 |
Maya Angelou | My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. | 118 |
Michel de Montaigne | The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. | 118 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Have the courage to act instead of react. | 118 |
Zora Neale Hurston | So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. | 118 |
Alanis Morissette | Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality. | 118 |
Glenn Greenwald | It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting. | 118 |
Jesse Jackson | Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. | 118 |
Nawal El Saadawi | War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial. | 118 |
Yuvraj Singh | There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger. | 118 |
Bill Flores | America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward. | 118 |
Donald McCaig | Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us. | 118 |
Miguel Syjuco | What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience. | 118 |
Nicolas Berggruen | California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build. | 118 |
Mary Gaitskill | Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses. | 118 |
Harry S Truman | Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. | 119 |
Pope John Paul II | Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. | 119 |
Vincent Van Gogh | What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? | 119 |
Carole King | When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?' | 119 |
David Cameron | Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. | 119 |
Paul Tillich | The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. | 119 |
Russell Crowe | War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying. | 119 |
Thomas S. Monson | The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. | 119 |
William Westmoreland | War is fear cloaked in courage. | 119 |
Lillian Hellman | Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. | 119 |
Marcia Angell | Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms. | 119 |
Romola Garai | I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures. | 119 |
Mary Gordon | It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. | 119 |
Jose Carreras | Yes, you must have the courage of being free. | 119 |
Julianna Baggott | I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken. | 119 |
Victor Hugo | Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. | 120 |
Horace | It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. | 120 |
J. D. Salinger | I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. | 120 |
Kerry Washington | That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. | 120 |
Margaret J. Wheatley | Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. | 120 |
Susana Martinez | I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. | 120 |
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world. | 120 |
Don Lemon | Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have. | 120 |
Gina Prince-Bythewood | 'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul. | 120 |
Alexa Vega | I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked! | 120 |
Radhanath Swami | When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation. | 120 |
Robert Wagner | I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress. | 120 |
Jose Carreras | Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no. | 120 |
John F. Kennedy | Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. | 121 |
Ben Carson | There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies. | 121 |
Gail Sheehy | I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage. | 121 |
George Matthew Adams | Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances. | 121 |
Guy Laliberte | We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived. | 121 |
Isabel Allende | In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. | 121 |
Jean Baudrillard | Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. | 121 |
Li Keqiang | In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable. | 121 |
Oriana Fallaci | It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces. | 121 |
Thomas S. Monson | Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. | 121 |
Evander Holyfield | Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot. | 121 |
Kenny Loggins | Courage is always rewarded. | 121 |
Townsend Harris | The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. | 121 |
Jaclyn Smith | Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. | 121 |
Ray Comfort | It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean. | 121 |
Shekhar Kapur | I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India. | 121 |
Jean Anouilh | Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. | 121 |
C. S. Lewis | Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. | 122 |
Nelson Mandela | Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. | 122 |
Anne Frank | He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! | 122 |
Erica Jong | Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. | 122 |
Miguel de Cervantes | Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. | 122 |
Brad Thor | My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity. | 122 |
Ken Salazar | President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage. | 122 |
Laura Mvula | My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed. | 122 |
Lee Myung-bak | I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable. | 122 |
Sigourney Weaver | Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people. | 122 |
Jeff Rich | Courage is action, not talk. | 122 |
Shekhar Kapur | I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India. | 122 |
John Carpenter | When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it. | 122 |
Brene Brown | The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support. | 123 |
Ezra Taft Benson | The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life. | 123 |
Q-Tip | I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody. | 123 |
Rudy Giuliani | Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you. | 123 |
Troy Polamalu | Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody. | 123 |
Twyla Tharp | What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity. | 123 |
Bill Rancic | I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. | 123 |
Earl Wilson | Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. | 123 |
Liya Kebede | When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage. | 123 |
Anna Held | How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy. | 123 |
Georg Buchner | I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living. | 123 |
Saina Nehwal | I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly. | 123 |
Michelle Obama | And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. | 124 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | A man of courage is also full of faith. | 124 |
Edward Gibbon | The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. | 124 |
George Michael | I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important. | 124 |
Gerry Adams | Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. | 124 |
Ricky Williams | When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. | 124 |
Victoria Pendleton | We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now. | 124 |
Jean Paul | A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. | 124 |
Plautus | Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. | 124 |
Thomas Aquinas | The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. | 125 |
Gary Zukav | Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth. | 125 |
Harold Prince | Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage. | 125 |
Joseph Conrad | The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. | 125 |
Stephen Leacock | It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. | 125 |
Walter Gropius | We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience. | 125 |
Plautus | Courage in danger is half the battle. | 125 |
Diana Quick | That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife. | 125 |
Maya Angelou | Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. | 126 |
George S. Patton | Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. | 126 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. | 126 |
Robert E. Lee | You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. | 126 |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. | 126 |
Klaus Schwab | Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration. | 126 |
Marilyn Hacker | I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. | 126 |
Maya Angelou | History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. | 201 |
Gloria Steinem | We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. | 201 |
Hillary Clinton | No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. | 201 |
Nikos Kazantzakis | When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. | 201 |
Thich Nhat Hanh | With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. | 201 |
Baltasar Gracian | Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. | 201 |
Ben Horowitz | Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. | 201 |
Christina Aguilera | I look back at the looks I've had over the years. I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things. Would I do it again? No. But that's part of the learning process and getting from point A to point B. | 201 |
Kirk Cameron | Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day. | 201 |
Max Lucado | If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help. | 201 |
Peter Ustinov | Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. | 201 |
Bruce Feiler | Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. | 201 |
Geri Halliwell | I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail. | 201 |
John W. Gardner | Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. | 201 |
Mohsin Hamid | I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are. | 201 |
Paul Greengrass | I think there's something about a character facing the huge problems and challenges of the contemporary world and meeting them with - head on with courage, allowing for darkness and mistake, but ultimately always moral. That's incredibly, incredibly inspiring, and that's honestly what I think. | 201 |
Tahar Ben Jelloun | Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. | 201 |
Austin Seferian-Jenkins | You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better. | 201 |
John Cornyn | You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage. | 201 |
Plato | Courage is knowing what not to fear. | 202 |
Antonin Scalia | If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. | 202 |
David Cameron | Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met. | 202 |
Jessica Simpson | I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! | 202 |
Ovid | Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. | 202 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. | 202 |
Steve Bullock | Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf. | 202 |
Plato | Courage is a kind of salvation. | 203 |
Ben Okri | One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. | 203 |
E. M. Forster | Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. | 203 |
Elizabeth Taylor | I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. | 203 |
Bill Clegg | Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going. | 203 |
George Lois | In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. | 203 |
Ellen Key | Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc. | 204 |
Mason Cooley | Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. | 204 |
Omar Bongo | It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions. | 204 |
Pico Iyer | It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut. | 204 |
Juan Williams | If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. | 204 |
Jeff Koons | I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. | 204 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. | 205 |
Thomas Merton | Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. | 205 |
Ben Horowitz | In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. | 205 |
Bindi Irwin | It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times. | 205 |
Charles Lindbergh | I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life. | 205 |
Martha Stewart | Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. | 205 |
Publilius Syrus | Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. | 205 |
Tadao Ando | I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. | 205 |
Thomas Fuller | Despair gives courage to a coward. | 205 |
Tim O'Brien | I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage. | 205 |
Umberto Eco | Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. | 205 |
Michael Franti | Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out. | 205 |
Richard Jefferies | It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further. | 205 |
Euripides | To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. | 206 |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh | It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. | 206 |
Ben Horowitz | In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process. | 206 |
Ed Koch | No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that. | 206 |
Joseph Conrad | The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. | 206 |
Kate Winslet | What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?' | 206 |
Rob Lowe | In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. | 206 |
William Hazlitt | We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. | 206 |
James Hillman | The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way. | 206 |
Kirstie Alley | When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using. | 206 |
Stacy Schiff | When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' | 206 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. | 207 |
Thomas A. Edison | Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! | 207 |
Elliott Abrams | The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. | 207 |
Kailash Satyarthi | The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people. | 207 |
Rahm Emanuel | Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition. | 207 |
Les Brown | It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. | 208 |
Blake Lively | There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring. | 208 |
Gerry Adams | Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future. | 208 |
Oriana Fallaci | I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. | 208 |
Sharon Stone | TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more. | 208 |
Steve Buscemi | When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though. | 208 |
Chad Hurley | I think a lot of people may have a unique insight or some idea that they feel could be a great solution for a particular problem, but for some reason never have a chance to try or never have the courage or maybe the self-doubt. Really, it's best just to remain naive and continue to work on things and see if people have the same problems. | 208 |
Daryl Hall | If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really. | 208 |
Taya Kyle | My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones. | 208 |
Wladimir Klitschko | I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me. | 208 |
Apollonius of Tyana | As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it. | 208 |
Ellen Key | If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think. | 209 |
Harrison Ford | I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right. | 209 |
Naomi Watts | Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life. | 209 |
Nikki Haley | The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage. | 209 |
Regina Brett | If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. | 209 |
Suze Orman | A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. | 209 |
Jonathan Sacks | We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty. | 209 |
Saint Teresa of Avila | To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. | 210 |
Christopher Morley | The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. | 210 |
Diane von Furstenberg | I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much. | 210 |
Jill Scott | At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness. | 210 |
Mother Angelica | St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn. | 210 |
Jeff Fortenberry | Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country. | 210 |
John C. Mather | My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites. | 210 |
Erma Bombeck | It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. | 211 |
Lin-Manuel Miranda | 'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up. | 211 |
Gary Oldman | Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. | 211 |
N. R. Narayana Murthy | Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck. | 211 |
Salma Hayek | I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me. | 211 |
Tadao Ando | At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. | 211 |
Thomas a Kempis | Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back. | 211 |
Plautus | Courage easily finds its own eloquence. | 211 |
Brigitte Bardot | I have the courage of my convictions. | 212 |
Graham Greene | People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. | 212 |
Henri Frederic Amiel | To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. | 212 |
Kevin McCarthy | If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together. | 212 |
Plutarch | Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. | 212 |
Publilius Syrus | Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. | 212 |
Portia de Rossi | The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know. | 212 |
Jeff Ament | With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.' | 212 |
Ronald Reagan | Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. | 213 |
Billy Graham | Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. | 213 |
Leo Buscaglia | I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. | 213 |
Virgil | Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? | 213 |
Charles Stanley | When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part. | 213 |
Hubert H. Humphrey | I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. | 213 |
Cindy Sheehan | I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed. | 213 |
Lesley Nicol | I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven. | 213 |
Anton Corbijn | For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.' | 213 |
John Cusack | Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight. | 213 |
George Santayana | Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. | 214 |
Brene Brown | Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. | 214 |
Gore Vidal | My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' | 214 |
Chris Crutcher | What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about. | 214 |
Martin O'Malley | Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves. | 214 |
Desmond Tutu | Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency. | 215 |
Saint Ignatius | Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail. | 215 |
Sharon Salzberg | I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith. | 215 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | Political courage is not political suicide. | 216 |
Les Brown | A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. | 216 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. | 216 |
Geri Halliwell | The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?' | 216 |
Marv Levy | My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage. | 216 |
George Bernard Shaw | The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. | 217 |
John Stuart Mill | The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. | 217 |
Catherine Deneuve | I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double. | 217 |
Elia Kazan | I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. | 217 |
Marquis de Lafayette | The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them. | 217 |
Phil Klay | War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war. | 217 |
Scott Walker | What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers. | 217 |
Richard Flanagan | In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked. | 217 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. | 218 |
Erma Bombeck | I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it. | 218 |
Bear Grylls | Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end. | 218 |
Brene Brown | As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out! | 218 |
Tom Brokaw | The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory. | 218 |
Bianca Jagger | Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. | 218 |
Aristotle | Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. | 219 |
Oprah Winfrey | I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. | 219 |
Ai Weiwei | The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. | 219 |
Anatole France | Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. | 219 |
Diane Ackerman | I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers. | 219 |
Emily Mortimer | I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at. | 219 |
Martin Jacques | Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion. | 219 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. | 220 |
Lech Walesa | Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. | 220 |
Suze Orman | In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm. | 220 |
Jeff Goodell | Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet. | 220 |
Lao Tzu | Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. | 221 |
Erma Bombeck | All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. | 221 |
George Bernard Shaw | I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. | 221 |
John Stuart Mill | Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. | 221 |
Brene Brown | The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness. | 221 |
Ehud Olmert | For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious. | 221 |
Joe Garcia | It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century. | 221 |
Mignon McLaughlin | Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. | 222 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | Courage without conscience is a wild beast. | 223 |
John Rhys-Davies | I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage. | 223 |
Oscar Wilde | 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. | 224 |
Charles Stanley | You have to have courage to be obedient to God. | 224 |
Dan Rather | What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage. | 224 |
John Rhys-Davies | Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil. | 224 |
George W. Bush | Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. | 225 |
Al Gore | While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward. | 225 |
Loretta Young | Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. | 225 |
William Godwin | In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued. | 225 |
George W. Bush | Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are. | 226 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | He who is brave is free. | 226 |
Orison Swett Marden | There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. | 226 |
Warren Spector | $200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much. | 226 |
Bob Woodward | Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected. | 226 |
Joshua Oppenheimer | All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards. | 226 |
John Muir | The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage. | 301 |
Liz Phair | You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage. | 301 |
Deepak Chopra | For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. | 302 |
Regina Brett | It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands? | 302 |
Madeleine M. Kunin | I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs. | 302 |
Michael Leunig | Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' | 302 |
Julia Stiles | I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke. | 302 |
Taylor Swift | A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. | 303 |
Kirk Cameron | If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window. | 303 |
Michael T. Flynn | I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion. | 303 |
Lady Gaga | In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?' | 304 |
Ani DiFranco | When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life. | 304 |
Ben Bernanke | When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary. | 304 |
Debbie Ford | What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good. | 304 |
Emmanuel Macron | Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk. | 304 |
Peter Thiel | We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius. | 304 |
Jim DeMint | I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world. | 304 |
Confucius | To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. | 305 |
Brie Larson | To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard. | 305 |
Elizabeth Esty | My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream. | 305 |
Karen Salmansohn | Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing. | 305 |
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works. | 305 |
Mark Twain | It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. | 306 |
Virgil | In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? | 306 |
Richard P. Feynman | When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards. | 306 |
Barbara Kingsolver | It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. | 307 |
Joseph Addison | Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. | 308 |
Robert Kennedy | The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans. | 309 |
Angela Merkel | During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened. | 309 |
Caitlin Moran | Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage. | 309 |
Lao Tzu | From caring comes courage. | 311 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives. | 311 |
Noam Chomsky | What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane. | 312 |
Confucius | Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. | 313 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. | 313 |
Jerry Hall | I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children. | 313 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. | 314 |
Virginia Woolf | This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. | 314 |
Barbara Kingsolver | Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers. | 314 |
Guy Kawasaki | Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is. | 314 |
Rick Perry | America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. | 314 |
Jim DeMint | What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare. | 314 |
Hugh Grant | Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line. | 315 |
Michel de Montaigne | Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. | 316 |
Abdullah II of Jordan | I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through. | 316 |
W. E. B. Du Bois | In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln. | 317 |
Iris Apfel | People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?' | 317 |
Angela Merkel | Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage. | 317 |
Maya Angelou | I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. | 319 |
Albert Camus | Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. | 319 |
Joe Biden | We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine. | 319 |
John F. Kennedy | The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. | 320 |
Helen Fisher | Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love. | 320 |
Ovid | Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. | 320 |
Gordon Brown | I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower. | 321 |
Stephen Kinzer | In 1984, showing extraordinary courage, a group of Guatemalan wives, mothers and other relatives of disappeared people banded together to form the Mutual Support Group for the Appearance Alive of Our Relatives. | 321 |
Jon Favreau | For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me. | 321 |
Confucius | Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. | 323 |
Jules Verne | The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear. | 323 |
Rand Paul | What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. | 323 |
Richard Dawkins | Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe. | 326 |
Albert Camus | Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. | 401 |
Daniel Kahneman | Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference. | 401 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | It requires more courage to suffer than to die. | 404 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. | 407 |
Charles Kennedy | If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt. | 408 |
Benjamin Franklin | How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. | 409 |
William Shakespeare | Boldness be my friend. | 410 |
Thomas Jefferson | One man with courage is a majority. | 411 |
Nikki Sixx | I had to find the courage to turn my life around. | 411 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. | 412 |
Gretchen Rubin | Enthusiasm is a form of social courage. | 412 |
Junot Diaz | When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live. | 412 |
Orison Swett Marden | Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.' | 413 |
Bertrand Russell | Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. | 414 |
George Vecsey | Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge. | 414 |
Jesse Ventura | The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.' | 415 |
Natalie Dormer | You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential. | 416 |
Barton Gellman | Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s. | 417 |
Joyce Meyer | Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free. | 419 |
Benjamin Disraeli | You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. | 420 |
John F. Kennedy | A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. | 421 |
William Shakespeare | Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? | 421 |
Maya Angelou | You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' | 422 |
Thomas Carlyle | The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. | 426 |
Joyce Meyer | The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! | 502 |
Thomas Fuller | The more wit the less courage. | 502 |
Suze Orman | A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy. | 506 |
John Ortberg | I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage. | 507 |
Pope Francis | If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God. | 511 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. | 516 |
Alice Walker | Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. | 519 |
Chuck Norris | In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years. | 521 |
Angela Merkel | We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage. | 524 |
Aung San Suu Kyi | I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous. | 525 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. | 601 |
Zig Ziglar | Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. | 601 |
Donna Brazile | Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a 'nobody' - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is. | 609 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. | 610 |
Suze Orman | Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand. | 610 |
Orison Swett Marden | Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess. | 613 |
Winston Churchill | Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. | 614 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint. | 614 |
Aristotle | Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. | 619 |
Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. | 619 |
Maya Angelou | We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! | 622 |
Oscar Wilde | You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. | 703 |
Samuel Johnson | He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. | 714 |
Marilyn Monroe | I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. | 715 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. | 718 |
Richard Dawkins | The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. | 802 |
Maya Angelou | Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. | 815 |
Maya Angelou | You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' | 819 |
George Bernard Shaw | Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. | 826 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. | 914 |
Maya Angelou | The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently. | 1006 |
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