Famous Quotes
- A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
- Sydney Smith on Courage
- A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Courage
- A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
- James Callaghan on Courage
- A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
- Ann Bancroft on Courage
- A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
- A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
- Charles Wilson on Courage
- A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
- Jacques Maritain on Courage
- A man of courage is also full of faith.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Courage
- A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
- Lewis Mumford on Courage
- A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- George Bernard Shaw on Courage
- A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.
- Sun Myung Moon on Courage
- A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
- Jalal Talabani on Courage
- A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
- Jacqueline Bisset on Courage
- A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy on Courage
- A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
- Stanley Baldwin on Courage
- A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
- Mickey Mantle on Courage
- A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
- Suze Orman on Courage
- A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
- Suze Orman on Courage
- 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.
- Ronald Reagan on Courage
- All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
- Erma Bombeck on Courage
- All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney on Courage
- All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
- Earl Nightingale on Courage
- Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
- Mike Ferguson on Courage
- America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
- Rick Perry on Courage
- America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
- Harry S. Truman on Courage
- Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
- Cynthia McKinney on Courage
- An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
- Joseph Pulitzer on Courage
- And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
- Rene Cassin on Courage
- And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
- Michelle Obama on Courage
- And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
- Rick Perry on Courage
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher on Courage
- Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
- Bart Starr on Courage
- As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
- Antony Sher on Courage
- As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
- Andre Norton on Courage
- As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
- Bob Schaffer on Courage
- As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.
- Susana Martinez on Courage
- At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin on Courage
- At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
- Tadao Ando on Courage
- Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.
- Publilius Syrus on Courage
- Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
- Kevin Rudd on Courage
- Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
- Thomas A. Edison on Courage
- Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
- Kevin Patterson on Courage
- Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.
- David Cameron on Courage
- Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Being gifted needs courage.
- Georg Brandes on Courage
- Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
- Billy Graham on Courage
- But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
- Robert Peel on Courage
- But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
- Erwin Rommel on Courage
- But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
- Ray Stannard Baker on Courage
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