Famous Quotes & Sayings

Menander

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Michael Josephson

In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

Michael Josephson

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

Martina McBride

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

Mark Pryor

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Rothko

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

Theodore White

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore Sturgeon

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Jacob Bronowski

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

James M. Barrie

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Eric Sevareid

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Rajneesh

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

John Wayne

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

John Steinbeck

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

John Sculley

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

Tobias Smollett

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Socrates

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Socrates

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Mercedes Lackey

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts

Theodore Roosevelt

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Margaret Sanger

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Margaret Mitchell

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Margaret Fuller

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Michael Stipe

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

Ray Bradbury

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Rand Paul

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

James Allen

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

James Anthony Froude

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.