Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Oscar Wilde

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

Lyman Abbott

Courage is caution overcome.

Michel de Montaigne

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Marianne Williamson

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

Mason Cooley

Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

Mason Cooley

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

Mary Livermore

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.

Mary Kay Ash

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

Marvin Olasky

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

Menander

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Michael Josephson

In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

Michael Josephson

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

Martina McBride

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

Mark Pryor

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Rothko

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

Millicent Fawcett

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Mignon McLaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

John Wooden

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

John Ruskin

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

John Patrick Shanley

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

John Milton

Courage never to submit of yield.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Miguel de Cervantes

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

Theodore White

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore Sturgeon

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 Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts

Theodore Roosevelt

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Margaret Sanger

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.