Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charles Mathias

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

What's more, he's had to reckon with some ultimate questions, which he's done with courage and wit and irony.

Benjamin Franklin

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Barbara Tuchman

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Barbra Streisand

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Baltasar Gracian

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

Aung San Suu Kyi

There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

Aung San Suu Kyi

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Anthony Trollope

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune favours the audacious.

John Powell

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

William Shakespeare

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

William Shakespeare

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

Leonard Mlodinow

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

Gloria Hunniford

Ultimately, I really want it to be a tribute to Caron and her extraordinary courage throughout the whole thing,

Jules Verne

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.

Romola Garai

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

Rich Mullins

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

Rob Lowe

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Sharon Stone

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

Branch Rickey

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Booker T. Washington

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

Bob Dylan

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

Brian Tracy

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

Jane Elliott

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Elliott Abrams

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.