Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Ayn Rand

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

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.

Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Benjamin Disraeli

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

He's part of it, and he doesn't have the courage to stand up to do anything about it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

Elbert Hubbard

A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

Eduardo Chillida

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

Edvard Munch

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

Werner Herzog

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not the one I set out to tell, ... I had no opinion about Treadwell . . . I gave him space, let him tell me his story. And it was pretty easy to see that he was haunted by demons -- illuminated, courageous and cowardly, exhilarated and in love with the idea of himself as a star.

George McGovern

Eli had courage in seeking to halt ill-conceived and unnecessary wars that degrade our moral standing in the world.

Fear - Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Few are those whom this courage find.They keep their eyes upon the goal,and through this journey are made whole.A test of will by grand design,for fear lives only in the mind.

Herbie Hancock

Sometimes it was good and sometimes it wasn't, but I had to stand up for all of it or else I couldn't play any of it. I learned how to be courageous from that experience.

Pretty darn courageous effort. We made the plays late we needed to win the game. These are kids I want to be with every day This is a special group of kids and win or lose they are going to have a special place in my heart forever.

People think the worst is over in a lot of these things. It's given them courage to come back in.

At this moment, when Helen Keller was a child, she showed us the power of a determined human spirit and reminded us all that courage and strength can exist in the most unlikely places.

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.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

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.

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

Courage is when you're shaking in your boots, and you saddle up anyway.

Courage is the whisper in the moment of despair that says: "I must go on...

Joseph Chamberlain

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

William Temple

Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Ruth Gordon

Courage is like a muscle strenghthened by its use.

Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.