Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney J. Harris

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Susan Sontag

Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.

Susan Sontag

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Tupac Shakur

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

Victor Hugo

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

Victor Hugo

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Vernon Howard

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Veronica Roth

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

Robert Frost

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Robert Frost

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

Robert Frost

Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

Robert Frost

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Robert Blair

Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

Rita Mae Brown

It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

Thomas S. Monson

Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Thomas S. Monson

A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

Sallust

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

Sallust

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Rumi

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

Rosalind Russell

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosa Parks

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Susan Cain

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

Stokely Carmichael

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Sting

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

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.

Robertson Davies

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Robert Peel

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.