Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mitchell

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Margaret Fuller

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Michael Stipe

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

Paul Robeson

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Paul Gauguin

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The fearless make their own way ...

Leigh Hunt

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

Paul Hogan

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and I chewed as fast as I could.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Tobias Smollett

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Socrates

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Socrates

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Mercedes Lackey

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

John Grisham

Some people have more guts than brains.

Ovid

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Paul Newman

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

I congratulate the government and the parliamentarians for their vision and courage in voting for this law.

Miyamoto Musashi

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

If she was hampered by the injury, she displayed the courage not to show it.

Les Brown

If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.

If you could put all that enthusiasm and courage that he has into a bottle, it would be worth a lot of money,

If you have to give up, give up your fear.

Saddam Hussein

It was the most wonderful thing I've seen in my life. He was the most wonderful and courageous father,

John Conyers

It was so unbelievable that this woman -- this one woman -- had the courage to take a seat and refuse to get up and give it up to a white gentleman,

It is such an important message and such an important story. It is a message of courage and heroism in the face of just horrible circumstances.

It's going to get hot and heavy. You're going to have to have courage.

Nigel Worthington

It's frustrating but Darren had the courage to take it,

Rafer Alston

It shows how much he cares, how much pride and courage he has. A lot of guys would say, 'I have a cracked rib,' and pack it in. He keeps going out there.

Its themes are about family, about not giving up on your dreams, courage.

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.

Daisaku Ikeda

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.