Famous Quotes
- I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
- Branch Rickey on Courage
- I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
- Erma Bombeck on Courage
- I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
- Elisabeth Rohm on Courage
- I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
- Wallis Simpson on Courage
- I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
- Catherine Deneuve on Courage
- I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
- Oriana Fallaci on Courage
- I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
- Hubert H. Humphrey on Courage
- I have the courage of my convictions.
- Brigitte Bardot on Courage
- I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
- King Abdullah II on Courage
- I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.
- Joe Scarborough on Courage
- I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
- Peter Carey on Courage
- I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
- Tadao Ando on Courage
- I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
- Dame Edith Evans on Courage
- I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
- Lee Myung-bak on Courage
- I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
- Nancy Keenan on Courage
- I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.
- I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela on Courage
- I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.
- Blanka Vlasic on Courage
- I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.
- Robert Wagner on Courage
- I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.
- Richard Hatch on Courage
- I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
- George Bernard Shaw on Courage
- I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
- Major Taylor on Courage
- I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
- John F. Kerry on Courage
- I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
- Marilyn Hacker on Courage
- I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
- Linda Ellerbee on Courage
- I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
- Caroline Kennedy on Courage
- I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
- Chris Bell on Courage
- I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
- Jane Campion on Courage
- I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
- Paul Bremer on Courage
- I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
- John Slattery on Courage
- I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
- Jessica Simpson on Courage
- I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
- Carol Leifer on Courage
- I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.
- Julie Doucet on Courage
- I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
- Jeff Koons on Courage
- I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.
- Megawati Sukarnoputri on Courage
- I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.
- Jim DeMint on Courage
- I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
- Marilyn Monroe on Courage
- I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
- Elia Kazan on Courage
- I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
- Maria Mitchell on Courage
- I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
- George Michael on Courage
- I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.
- Judith Light on Courage
- I would kiss you, had I the courage.
- Edouard Manet on Courage
- I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.
- Georg Buchner on Courage
- I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
- Bill Rancic on Courage
- I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
- Julianna Baggott on Courage
- I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
- Loretta Young on Courage
- I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.
- Mark McGrath on Courage
- I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
- J. D. Salinger on Courage
- I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
- Emily Mortimer on Courage
- I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
- Renee Fleming on Courage
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