Famous Quotes & Sayings

Courage, brother! do not stumble,Though thy path be dark as night.

John Adams

Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.

Maya Angelou

Courage allows the successful woman to fail-and learn powerful lessons-from the failure-so that in the end,she didn't fail at all.

Ivo Sanader

This government has inherited a number of traumatic issues that those who were in office before us did not have the courage to resolve,

This demonstrates their resolve and courage to impact us, to create fear. But it also is aimed at their own audience, their own constituents to demonstrate their prowess to their own warrior subculture.

This is acknowledged by all people of the world, and his denial has only proven he has no courage to face history,

Steven Spielberg

This is a courageous year for filmmakers. ... They are saying 'If I never make another film, this one says what I think and feel.

Walt Disney

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. 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. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Saddam Hussein

It was the most wonderful thing I've seen in my life. He was the most wonderful and courageous father,

Havelock Ellis

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Giuseppe Mazzini

God holds with the strong.

Horace

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

Horace

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

Horace

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Horace

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

Herbert Spencer

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

Herbert Spencer

Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.

Herbert Spencer

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Herman Melville

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

Herman Melville

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

Herman Melville

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

Henry David Thoreau

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

Henry David Thoreau

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

Jeremy Collier

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.

Ernest Hemingway

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Erwin Rommel

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Helen Keller

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits ...

George Eliot

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.