Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is where I've got to have the courage to play them, and to their credit they did some things last week where you walk away and say you liked what you saw.

Oprah Winfrey

This is why I say you were so courageous, because you know what courage is.

Les Brown

If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.

If you could put all that enthusiasm and courage that he has into a bottle, it would be worth a lot of money,

If you have to give up, give up your fear.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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.

Kathleen Turner

Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

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.

H. L. Mencken

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Grace Paley

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Gene Hackman

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Jessica Simpson

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Gerald R. Ford

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

Jessamyn West

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Howard Thurman

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

Howard Schultz

I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don't. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don't be beaten down by naysayers. Don't let the odds scare you from even trying.

Howard Cosell

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.