Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Robert E. Lee

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

Walter Lord

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Voltaire

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William C. Bryant

Ah, never shall the land forget How gush'd the life-blood of the brave, Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save!

Walter Russell

When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

Walter Scott

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Walter Scott

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Walter Scott

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.

Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Winston Churchill

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Winston Churchill

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Winston Churchill

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

Winston Churchill

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

William Manchester

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

Sara Blakely

Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.

William Faulkner

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

Ronald Reagan

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Ronald Reagan

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Saint Francis de Sales

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.

Winston Churchill

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Rudyard Kipling

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

W. Clement Stone

Have the courage to face the truth

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

William Halsey

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

W. Somerset Maugham

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

Zig Ziglar

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.