Famous Quotes
- The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
- The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
- Joseph Conrad on Courage
- The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
- Van Wyck Brooks on Courage
- The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
- Alexandra Fuller on Courage
- The more wit the less courage.
- Thomas Fuller on Courage
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
- Coco Chanel on Courage
- The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.
- Portia De Rossi on Courage
- The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
- James Hillman on Courage
- The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
- Carson Daly on Courage
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin on Courage
- The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
- Marlon Brando on Courage
- The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw on Courage
- The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- Jim Hightower on Courage
- The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Courage
- The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.
- Nikki Haley on Courage
- The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
- Townsend Harris on Courage
- The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
- Dean Smith on Courage
- The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
- Thomas Aquinas on Courage
- The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
- Thomas S. Monson on Courage
- The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Courage
- The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
- Bryan Miller on Courage
- The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
- Nick Clooney on Courage
- The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
- Christopher Monckton on Courage
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
- Joseph Conrad on Courage
- The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
- Thucydides on Courage
- The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
- Rene Cassin on Courage
- The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- Michel De Montaigne on Courage
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman on Courage
- The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
- Carl Lewis on Courage
- The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
- Bill Frist on Courage
- The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
- William Blake on Courage
- The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
- Peter Fonda on Courage
- The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
- George Weinberg on Courage
- Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
- Howard Cosell on Courage
- There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
- Geraldine Brooks on Courage
- 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 on Courage
- There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Courage
- There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
- There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
- Daniel Ellsberg on Courage
- There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
- Patrick Campbell on Courage
- There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
- Orison Swett Marden on Courage
- There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
- Orison Swett Marden on Courage
- There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
- Alfred P. Sloan on Courage
- There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
- Robert Dale Owen on Courage
- There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
- Jonas Salk on Courage
- There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
- William Congreve on Courage
- There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
- Silvia Cartwright on Courage
- There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
- Abu Bakar Bashir on Courage
- There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Courage
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