Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Joseph Addison

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

Joseph Addison

True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.

Joseph Addison

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

John Cage

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

Ellen Glasgow

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

Epictetus

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

Epictetus

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Emily Dickinson

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Elmer Davis

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Ellis Peters

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Edward Weston

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

Henry Van Dyke

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

Henry Van Dyke

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

Henry Van Dyke

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henri Matisse

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Henri Matisse

Another word for creativity is courage.

Henri Matisse

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Herodotus

My men have become women, but the women men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color....

Kurt Cobain

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

Khalil Gibran

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Khalil Gibran

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Napoleon Bonaparte

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Norman Mailer

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

Norman Mailer

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Norman Reilly Raine

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

Oscar Arias

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.