Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josephine Baker

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

Justin Cronin

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

Joseph Conrad

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Kate Reed

Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Integrity is the core of our character.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

John Charles Polanyi

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

Leo Tolstoy

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

Livy

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

Lynda Obst

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Loretta Young

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Major Taylor

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

Mahatma Gandhi

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Gustave Flaubert

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

John Dryden

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

John M. McHugh

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

John Bunyan

Who would true Valour see, Let him come hither

Joe Abercrombie

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Mao Zedong

Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.