Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnnie Cochran

Nobody has had the courage to say this is wrong,

Edmund Burke

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little

Nearly 2,000 years ago someone died on a cross for us. Shouldn't we have the courage to stand up for him?

But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it.

Mark Kennedy

Because of the courage and skill of America's fighting men and women, we live in a nation that enjoys unprecedented peace and prosperity.

Paul Rieckhoff

men and women of extraordinary courage and incredible capability. But it's time we had leadership in Washington to match that courage and match that capability.

Maybe the psychology is changing. Maybe we get a little courage back here.

Now we've shown what Cuba can do. Now we've seen the courage of the players when they went out into the field.

John Rhys-Davies

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

I don't think people hold United responsible for what happened, and the story is really a story of courage by the crew and passengers in fighting back. It's sort of a positive story out of a horrible situation.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Giving love and not getting it back wounds the heart, but loving someone in silence without the courage to let them know, wounds the soul.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

Jesse Owens

I always loved running / it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Frank Sinatra

I would be honored just to be the pillow upon which this courageous man lays down to rest his head.

Silvan Shalom

I wish to particularly thank President Musharraf for his courage in promoting peace and moderation in our region and in general.

William Sherman

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

I was pleased with the score. We all knew our routine wasn't as difficult as some of the other squads competing. It took a lot of courage for our cheerleaders to go out on the mat knowing that.

She's a very special young lady who had the courage to step up and testify, ... She's the hero in this.

She's got a story to tell and the courage to tell it.

She screamed and pulled away and ran to her home. This was a very courageous little girl.

Eleanor Smeal

She defined the problem, and then she had the courage to do something about it.

David Cook

She is worthy of respect, being such a courageous reporter and remember who did what to whom.

I can't say enough about Vanessa. She has really shown courage to this team and played to her full potential starting with the Friday before our Wyoming game.

I can't say enough about the players and the way we played. Three game in three days? The kids could have been tired, but they just kept playing. I thought they showed a lot of courage tonight.

Dan Wilson

I can't imagine what these kids have gone through. To see the courage that they have, and being positive through it, and get to the other side. First Place allows them to do that, and that's pretty powerful.

Jean Paul

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jim Hightower

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Gary Zukav

The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

Hillary Clinton

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Ernest Hemingway

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.