Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Livy

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

Lynda Obst

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Loretta Young

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Norman Mailer

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

Norman Mailer

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Norman Reilly Raine

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

Oscar Arias

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Olga Korbut

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

Ellen Glasgow

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

Epictetus

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

Epictetus

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Emily Dickinson

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Elmer Davis

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Ellis Peters

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Henri Matisse

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Henri Matisse

Another word for creativity is courage.

Henri Matisse

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Herodotus

My men have become women, but the women men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color....

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Eric Sevareid

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Ayn Rand

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.