Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Anthony

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Robert A. Heinlein

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Thomas Merton

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Thomas Merton

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

Rumi

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

Rosalind Russell

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosa Parks

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Susan Cain

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

Stokely Carmichael

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Sting

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

Thomas Szasz

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Tommy Douglas

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Tom Coburn

You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage..

Tom Clancy

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Sallust

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

Sallust

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Thomas Bernhard

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Victor Hugo

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

Victor Hugo

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Vernon Howard

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Veronica Roth

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

Stephen Covey

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

Stephen Covey

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

Viktor E. Frankl

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Vannevar Bush

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Vaclav Havel

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Stephen King

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Starhawk

a lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.

Stanley Kubrick

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

Soren Kierkegaard

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Soren Kierkegaard

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Tadao Ando

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.