Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need to fight them like you would fight a bully. But it takes a lot of courage, and very few people want to go through the bother.

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Tokyo Sexwale

We?re very proud of Stephen. He showed great courage and determination today in the face of adversity, like a good South African,

William Shakespeare

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

William Shakespeare

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

William Shakespeare

O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

William Shakespeare

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.

William Shakespeare

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

Dean Wilson

We had something to prove. It wasn't about winning it was about courage, and working hard.

Finally, someone has got the courage to do what needs to be done.

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Hill Harper

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Herbert Kaufman

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

But she is young, and it takes courage and stamina to organize that effort with one's creditors. It will be success from a position of strength, not a demeaning negotiation for reprieve.

Isabella Rossellini

If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses.

Christopher Lee

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

Yet will that beauteous image makeThe dreary sea less drearAnd thy remembered smile will wakeThe hope that tramples fear

Harrison Ford

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

Bill Maher

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Gabrielle Giffords

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

Thalia

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

Clarence Thomas

A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

Coleman Young

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Dante Alighieri

Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

Dan Millman

Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

Dan Millman

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Cormac McCarthy

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.