Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Pablo Casals

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Pablo Casals

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

Plautus

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Plautus

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

Plautus

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

Plautus

Courage is its own reward.

Plautus

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plautus

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Plato

Courage is knowing what to fear.

Lech Walesa

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Laura Linney

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

John Stuart Mill

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

John Stuart Mill

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

James Goldsmith

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

James Forrestal

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well....

Laurence Sterne

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

Friedrich Schiller

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

George Farquhar

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

George Gissing

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Luc de Clapiers

Nothing but courage can guide life.

Luc de Clapiers

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Terence

Fortune helps the brave.

Nora Roberts

Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Millicent Fawcett

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Mignon McLaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

John Wooden

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

John Ruskin

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.