Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Hackman

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Jessica Simpson

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Isaac Newton

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

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

Silvio Berlusconi

Pain is at this time a feeling shared by the entire nation. But we also feel pride for the courage and humanity with which our troops ... have worked and still work to make the situation tolerable for children, women, the elderly and the weak who live in that martyred region.

Our team really stepped up tonight and showed a lot courage to take it to them like that.

Sylvester Croom

The penalties are always on the same people. It's a lack of discipline. At some point you have to play with pride and play for yourself. I can't put faith in their hearts or courage in their minds.

Colin Firth

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Alice Walker

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Nancy Gibbs

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

Frank Lowy

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

Estelle

You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

Eddie Marsan

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Mary Tyler Moore

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Shari Sebbens

I want to work as hard as I can. But I also want six kids! It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

Leila Aboulela

I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.

Nick Tosches

As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.

Yuvraj Singh

There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.

John Ciardi

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

Simone Signoret

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

Robert Anthony

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Oriana Fallaci

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.

Oscar Wilde

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Saina Nehwal

I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.