Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augustus Hare

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Arthur Koestler

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

Arthur Koestler

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

Let a new earth rise. Let another/ world be born. Let a bloody/ peace be written in the sky./ Let a second generation full of / courage issue forth; let a / people loving freedom come/ to growth.

Christopher Paolini

Many people have died for what they believe... the real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

So he did the right thing, the courageous thing and dismissed the case.

She's a very special young lady who had the courage to step up and testify, ... She's the hero in this.

John Edwards

When I hear of a group of courageous workers engaged in a historic struggle, it is important to me to show that I am with them. I am with you in every step of this struggle. No American should be working full time and still living in poverty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Edgar Allan Poe

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

Elbert Hubbard

A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

Eduardo Chillida

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

Edvard Munch

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

Aristotle

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Aristotle

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Aristotle

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

Aristotle

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Aristotle

We become brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Ben Jonson

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Romola Garai

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

Rich Mullins

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

Rob Lowe

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Saina Nehwal

I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

Sylvester Croom

The penalties are always on the same people. It's a lack of discipline. At some point you have to play with pride and play for yourself. I can't put faith in their hearts or courage in their minds.

Colin Firth

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Alice Walker

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.