Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Nelson Mandela

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Nelson Mandela

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Nelson Mandela

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

Nhat Hanh

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

Noam Chomsky

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

Gerald R. Ford

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

Jessamyn West

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Harold B. Lee

It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status.

Haile Selassie

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

George Herbert

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Moliere

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Omar N. Bradley

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Oprah Winfrey

Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

Olivia Newton-John

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Mark Twain

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Mark Twain

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Howard Thurman

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

Howard Schultz

I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don't. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don't be beaten down by naysayers. Don't let the odds scare you from even trying.

Howard Cosell

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.

Herbert has been an inspiration to us, ... It took courage for Herbert to do what he has done and to experience what Herbert has experienced.

Euripides

The brave venture anything.

Euripides

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripides

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Werner Herzog

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not the one I set out to tell, ... I had no opinion about Treadwell . . . I gave him space, let him tell me his story. And it was pretty easy to see that he was haunted by demons -- illuminated, courageous and cowardly, exhilarated and in love with the idea of himself as a star.

Once you tap into a source for your wisdom and understanding, love and affection, giving and sharing, support and guidance, pain and suffering - you release all the frustration in your mind and are ready to triumph over your life.

The mood of the market has improved. The Nasdaq gave us courage.