Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudyard Kipling

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

W. Clement Stone

Have the courage to face the truth

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

Wilferd Peterson

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Walter Lord

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Voltaire

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William C. Bryant

Ah, never shall the land forget How gush'd the life-blood of the brave, Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save!

Walter Russell

When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

Walter Scott

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Walter Scott

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Walter Scott

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.

Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Winston Churchill

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Winston Churchill

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Winston Churchill

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

Winston Churchill

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Rick Warren

When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

Torquato Tasso

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Veronica Roth

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Samuel Johnson

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Samuel Johnson

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Ruth Gordon

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

Ruth Gordon

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

William Halsey

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

W. Somerset Maugham

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.