Famous Quotes
- My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
- Carly Fiorina on Courage
- My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
- Clay Aiken on Courage
- My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
- John Bunyan on Courage
- My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
- Peter Paul Rubens on Courage
- Necessity does the work of courage.
- Nicholas M. Butler on Courage
- Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
- Joseph Smith, Jr. on Courage
- Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Courage
- No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
- Channing Pollock on Courage
- No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
- Hillary Clinton on Courage
- No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
- None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
- Lydia M. Child on Courage
- Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
- Umberto Eco on Courage
- Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
- Dean Koontz on Courage
- Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
- Mira Sorvino on Courage
- Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
- Jeff Goodell on Courage
- Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
- Maxwell Maltz on Courage
- Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
- Andre Malraux on Courage
- Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
- Vittorio Alfieri on Courage
- Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
- Vittorio Alfieri on Courage
- On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
- Marvin Olasky on Courage
- Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
- Theodore Sturgeon on Courage
- One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
- Ian Mcewan on Courage
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou on Courage
- One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Courage
- One man with courage is a majority.
- Thomas Jefferson on Courage
- One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson on Courage
- One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
- One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
- Josefina Vazquez Mota on Courage
- One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
- Katherine Anne Porter on Courage
- One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
- Kenneth Branagh on Courage
- Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
- Nicholas M. Butler on Courage
- Optimism is the foundation of courage.
- Nicholas M. Butler on Courage
- Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
- Kathryn Bigelow on Courage
- Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar on Courage
- Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
- Rebecca Harding Davis on Courage
- Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
- Angela Merkel on Courage
- Part of courage is simple consistency.
- Peggy Noonan on Courage
- Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
- Thomas Hardy on Courage
- Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
- Linda McCartney on Courage
- Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
- Desmond Tutu on Courage
- Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
- Jenny Shipley on Courage
- People don't follow titles, they follow courage.
- William Wells Brown on Courage
- People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
- Graham Greene on Courage
- People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
- Jim Valvano on Courage
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse on Courage
- Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Courage
- Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
- Wendell Phillips on Courage
- Physical courage is a great test.
- Oriana Fallaci on Courage
- Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Courage
- Political courage is not political suicide.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Courage
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