Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It should give people, institutions and politicians the necessary courage to implement change.

Once you tap into a source for your wisdom and understanding, love and affection, giving and sharing, support and guidance, pain and suffering - you release all the frustration in your mind and are ready to triumph over your life.

The mood of the market has improved. The Nasdaq gave us courage.

There's a lot of talent on that (Woburn) roster, and we played with a lot courage and played hard. But we made too many mistakes. We're a young team and we're still learning.

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.

Jack Straw

As Prime Minister, (Rabin) made difficult and courageous decisions in his search for peace and was undaunted by the many obstacles he faced,

Vash Young

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

The most courageous person in all of this is my wife, Karen. She has not had a day off or any time to herself since this happened.

Walt Disney

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

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,

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.

Euripides

The brave venture anything.

Euripides

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripides

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Harold B. Lee

It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status.

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.

George Herbert

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

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.

Moliere

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Herbert has been an inspiration to us, ... It took courage for Herbert to do what he has done and to experience what Herbert has experienced.

Hyman Rickover

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

Gloria Steinem

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.