Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Charles Stanley

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

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.

David McCullough

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

David McCullough

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

Catherine the Great

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Carl Lewis

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Simon Deng

The people who will walk to Washington, D.C., are here to tell the world about courage, a word the United Nations has been unable to pronounce.

Blaise Pascal

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Blaise Pascal

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Charles Perrault

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

Oliver Goldsmith

To feel your subject thoroughly and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence

George Washington

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.

William C. Bryant

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William Zinsser

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.