Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John Paul II

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Peter McWilliams

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear....

Pete Seeger

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

Paulo Coelho

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

Paulo Coelho

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Paulo Coelho

Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

Paulo Coelho

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Paulo Coelho

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Primo Levi

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

Pliny the Elder

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Pliny the Elder

The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all too evil designs.

Plutarch

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Plutarch

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Plutarch

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Phoebe Cary

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

Phillips Brooks

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

Natsuki Takaya

It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.

John Bunyan

Who would true Valour see, Let him come hither

Joe Abercrombie

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

John Charles Polanyi

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

Leo Tolstoy

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

Leo Buscaglia

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Leo Buscaglia

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

Lady Gaga

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

Lewis Carroll

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

Josephine Baker

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

Pearl S. Buck

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

Peter Ustinov

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Peter Senge

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

Peter Paul Rubens

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

Piers Anthony

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

Phyllis Bottome

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!