Famous Quotes

"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."

Stephen Leacock on Courage

More quotes about Courage

• "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

  Steve Jobs on Courage

• "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Courage

• "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

• "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

  Winston Churchill 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

More quotes by Stephen Leacock

• "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

• "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica."

• "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

• "Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."

• "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."